Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PRESIDENT STAYS BY FIRESIDE AGAIN EISENHOWER GOES FOR AUTO RIDE...
...President's close associates. "The country can continue to put its trust in him on the big decisions." But if allowed to slide, small problems can snowball into major cases, e.g., the present economic recession, and it is in this area that the President's inability to ride constant herd is most felt...
...North American has proposed a beefed-up version with a booster rocket that will push it up to orbiting speed (18,000 m.p.h.). It will climb into genuine space, well above 150 miles. There will be no human pilot on the first flights. Automatic instruments will ride the winged satellite around the earth for awhile. Then, perhaps on electronic command from below, they will glide it to earth. Later, as the art develops, the first human pilot may take the same ride...
Died. Joe Frisco (real name: Louis Wilson Josephs), 68, stuttering comedian of vaudeville and nightspots, famed for his nonstop quips ("I, had a g-g-great day at the track. I got a r-r-ride home") and the Frisco Dance, a soft-shoe treatment of The Darktown Strutters' Ball trademarked by a tilted derby and a glowing cigar; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...dollar, one-hour train ride from Princeton, New Jersey to either Philadelphia or New York City. The nearest thing to a girl's college for miles around is the public high school, and there are only three theaters in the entire town. When seeking relief from the academic life, therefore, the average Princeton man invariably turns to his club. There he not only takes all his meals, but forms friendships, watches television, plays squash or bridge or ping-pong, drinks, parties, holds bull sessions, and even studies. Unless he's on a varsity team, its intramural program is his only...