Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mark, a New Orleans jam session, the Washington Monument) best left to home movies. On the whole, the trouble with Cinerama Holiday is that it employs such mighty means to such an insignificant end. As one customer remarked, "You get at least half the thrill of a roller-coaster ride for only ten times the price...
...Pope's Vicar-General was on hand to give the new Metropolitana his official blessing. Rome's Mayor Rebecchini devoted his most flowery rhetoric to the completion "of this long and arduous undertaking." Even Italy's President Luigi Einaudi turned up to enjoy the first ride. Ensconced on a seat in one of the three streamlined cars that made up the first train, Einaudi was soon joined by a rush of some 1,000 specially invited guests who crammed themselves into the train in the best Times Square rush-hour tradition, while attendants in bright red garrison...
Civil Defense workers are now preparing maps of escape routes which will be posted in university buildings. In the event of war, all vehicles would have to follow these prescribed routes and stop along the way or at special pick-up points for people without a ride...
...with a penknife right there. But they drove him eight miles to an aid station, then flew him 400 miles to a hospital. Then the doctors amputated. There was plenty of readjusting for Reuben Torrey to do after that, but it was during that first eight-mile ride that he came to grips with his new situation. "I knew I'd face life maimed," he remembers, "but I knew the Lord still had work for me to do." It turned out that the Lord had a special task for a one-armed missionary...
Cecil Mayes was the first. The young (22) North Carolinian ex-Air Forceman was thumbing a ride on Chicago's West Side when a "late-model" car pulled up to the curb and the driver waved him over. "Do you believe in God?" asked the stranger, whom Mayes remembers as middleaged. "Yes," said Mayes. "Do you need some money?" "Yes," said Mayes. The man reached over, put a roll of bills in his hand and drove off. Round-eyed Bill Mayes looked down at his fist. It was clamped around six $50 bills...