Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she was appointed to the U.S. Senate two months ago to succeed the late Dwight Griswold (TIME, April 26), Nebraska Rancher Eva Bowring adopted a rancher's formula: "I'm going to ride the fence awhile until I find where the gates are." Last week Senator Bowring found a gate and rode through at full gallop...
...time he entered Copenhagen's Technical University. At 24, with a diploma and a Danish wife and daughter, Strobel immigrated to New York. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Strobel, the fair's chief structural engineer, tested the amusement section's thrill-ride contraptions by taking the first spin on each. During World War II, he designed prefabricated Army barracks and portable airplane hangars. His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices to its credit, including shopping centers, railroad stations, factories, hospitals, churches, and the cosmotron building at the Brookhaven National...
...Riding Alone. Last week Zouzou tried again. She agreed to take her husband with her, but could she just make an advance trip to Alexandria to rent an apartment? Sure, the commandant said, but take along a soldier guard. "Send him in a jeep," Zouzou said over the phone. "Can't spare a jeep," the officer replied. "Why can't he ride up in front in the Cadillac with the chauffeur?" "Never," said Zouzou. "I always ride in front with the chauffeur." The commandant waited. O.K., said Zouzou, "if the government is so tightfisted, you can send...
Four hours later, somewhat subdued, Zouzou agreed to ride back to Cairo but only in a police jeep. "The Cadillac belongs to my husband," she answered, "and I want no part...
Baby sea otters ride on their mothers' chests. No natural enemies attack them except killer whales, which can easily be eluded in the waving fronds of the kelp...