Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shindigs. This one celebrated the 75th birthday of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. As a result of his 1961 stroke, Old Joe can speak only haltingly, and cannot write at all. Despite his handicaps, he is pretty chipper. He rises early each morning, often goes for an after-breakfast ride with Niece Anne Gargan. At night he sometimes watches a movie in the theater that is part of his house...
...Short. As they wonder where the readers went, most observers conjure up the figure of the commuter. Ivan Veit, business manager of the Times, subscribes to the widely shared view that what the papers lost was "multiple readers"-people who bought two or more papers daily, one for the ride to work and another for the trip home. Newsstand sales, off some 10%, suggest that Veit may be right. Francis M. Flynn, president and publisher of the Daily News, thinks that commuters have rediscovered homegrown substitutes: "I hear that people are reading suburban papers more and liking them better...
Steiniger helps Sinclair's gasoline sales in even little ways: after a quarter-mile swim before breakfast at his home in Norwalk, Conn., he shuns commuter trains to ride all the way in a chauffeur-driven car to his Fifth Avenue office...
Sweet Talk & Styleplus. In this curiously tribal world Bill was a natural leader. He could hurl wet corncobs at the neighboring kids with greater accuracy than either of his brothers; he could ride a horse bareback as no other Faulkner could; he could invent tales with such surpassing guile that for one whole winter he sweet-talked a schoolmate into slopping the hogs for him-in return for which service Bill entertained him with stories of madness and murder...
...right temperature, then automatically test their quality, setting up electronic protests if it has been disobeyed. A General Electric computer is scheduling the timing of each stage in the construction of a 34-story Manhattan apartment house, and in Detroit computers tell automen how to make their cars ride more smoothly by calculating the strain requirements of springs and shock absorbers...