Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tardily ordered shopkeepers to keep prices pegged, the cost of living has leaped 25%. Last week, spurred by an announced 20 centimo (½?) rise in streetcar fares, the people of Barcelona (pop. 1,280,000) decided to make a protest. Word raced through the Catalonian capital: "Don't ride the streetcars...
Last week, just a short subway or taxi ride from Times Square, a theatergoer could pay his money (ticket range: $1.15 to $4.50) and take his choice of a dozen productions. The three top hits: The Threepenny Opera, the sardonic satire of London's 19th century underworld taken from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, which holds the record for longevity off-Broadway (560 performances); a revival of The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill (225 performances); and Take a Giant Step, by Louis Peterson, another revival, which drew better reviews than the Broadway original...
RAILROADS The Devil & Dan'l Webster On a preinaugural demonstration of his new, light, low-gravity-center train, New Haven President George Alpert last week savored the unaccustomed compliments of 225 guests, mostly newsmen, along for the ride. The Dan'l Webster, a nine-car, $1,500,000 train, powered by low-slung diesel locomotives fore and aft, was noticeably smoother and quieter than standard equipment though it cost only $1,650 per seat v. $2,850 for the conventional type. As the train from Boston rolled into the outskirts of Manhattan, it was right on time...
...Died. James Leslie (Jim) Marshall, 65, onetime Collier's Far East correspondent, who got a resounding newsbeat (and a crippled arm, damaged vocal cords) in 1937 when he mooched a ride on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay just before Japanese dive bombers sank it in the Yangtze River; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...Young Lochinvar. In Bad Kreuznach, West Germany, after he stole a 50-ton M-47 tank and chugged for a seven-mile joy ride, Private Walter F. Brown got a two-year prison sentence despite his explanation that he took the tank to show his girl friend that he could drive...