Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed a quiet afternoon in Tra Khe village near Danang as U.S. Marine Sergeant James Dodson, 23, of York, Pa., went out on patrol. He passed out candy and C rations, took the village children for a ride in his Jeep, helped with such chores as rice harvesting and mashing. Suddenly he was slugged from behind. When he regained consciousness, he was being trussed, like some modern Gulliver, by six Viet Cong, who led him off into the jungle...
...ride into Moscow with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny, De Gaulle followed the old Kaluga Road (now Lenin Avenue) down which Napoleon retreated under Czarist cannonfire in 1812. Last week the route was lined by 800,000 Muscovites waving paper tricolors and shouting "Druzhba!" (friendship). The Napoleonic parallel was completed when De Gaulle was escorted to a spacious apartment within the Kremlin walls, the first Western leader ever so honored and the first Frenchman to sleep there since Bonaparte...
...price it would have brought for scrap. They moved it into some pasture land in nearby Kennebunkport, and thus began the Seashore Trolley Museum, the nation's oldest and largest. Today it has nearly 100 cars, annually attracts 30,000 visitors who pay 35? to ride along the museum's 1½ miles of track...
...radial tire the cords are at 90° angles, forming a pattern of crosses. With this structure, the faster a car goes, the more tread is slapped onto the ground. The result is better road grip and up to 100% longer tread life-but also a harder ride. The tires are costly: about $50 each...
...cars carry nylon tires as original equipment, though 80% of the tires sold in the replacement market are nylon. Detroit's resistance derives largely from the fact that nylon tires tend to make a thumping noise for the first few blocks or miles of a ride-and auto dealers can have a difficult time convincing customers that the thump comes not from the car but the tire. The noise is an embarrassing result of nylon's tendency to "flat spot," that is, to flatten slightly when the car stands still for a while. Lately, the chemical manufacturers have...