Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Astronaut Scott was finally able to hitch a ride after ten misses, the cage swung widely back and forth in stomach-churning arcs as it was lifted to the helicopter. Astronaut Schweickart, the next passenger, was splashed through the water on the first swing of the sling. Astronaut McDivitt was forced to take refuge on the flotation collar when the wind flipped over his raft. McDivitt got a thorough soaking and dizzying spin before he was lifted safely aboard the helicopter. Although the astronauts were probably never in real danger, the recovery provided exciting counterpoint to Apollo...
...country has plenty of less famous eccentrics too. Terrified of driving, a Kansas scion solves the problem by packing his Rolls-Royce aboard a railroad flatcar, sitting behind the wheel and riding wherever he pleases. An Oregon sportswriter is so hung up on streetcars that he roams the U.S. to find and ride them. An Arkansas housewife fills her house with flocks of birds that swirl through the rooms; she spends $200 a month to feed them-not to mention the cleaning bills. For ten years, a 52-year-old man named Clint Wescott camped in a weed-choked field...
...building housing for immigrants and goldene wegen, as Israelis then called their new roads. In 1956 she was promoted to Foreign Minister, a post she held for a decade that was marked by at least one violent disagreement with Ben-Gurion over recognizing West Germany; she still refuses to ride in a German-made car. More constructively, she began a quiet and highly successful campaign to win diplomatic allies among the new nations of Africa, offering them "friends" instead of "experts" and "shared goods" instead...
...exile in Athens caused him severe problems: flitting about town in their $25,000 Maseratis, they were soon involved in eight major auto accidents that caused two deaths. Saud paid for all damages, but the Greeks were not appeased. The King then threatened to give his sons camels to ride instead of Maseratis but finally settled for assigning chauffeurs to the boys' cars...
...last year, up from about the $30,000 it was traded for only five years earlier. Says Kevin Tierney, 26, the sharp-eyed Irish appraiser that Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries imported a year ago to smarten up its silver department: "You've no idea what that ride has done for Revere's trade...