Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balance of payments deficits plaguing key trading nations. As a result of France's crisis, a Common Market study indicated last week, Paris is likely to run payments deficits of some $1 billion through next year. Even so, France has reserves of about $5.6 billion, presumably enough to ride out a deficit for some time; moreover, at week's end, it further bolstered the franc with a request for an additional $140 million drawing from the IMF. Britain is headed for an expected deficit of at least $500 million in 1968, but expects to show a substantial surplus...
...only virtue is that it provides yet another unedifying glimpse behind the Senate caucus-room scenes. More interesting is his sentimental portrait of the off-camera McCarthy. Here is Joe hiding four dozen toys for visiting children; Joe eating cheeseburgers in fancy restaurants; Joe giving a plane ride to an antagonistic correspondent; Joe, in defeat after censure, slumping in a chair to watch a TV soap opera...
...lost blood during the 23 minutes he lay in the pantry hallway at the Ambassador Hotel. During the four-minute ride to Central Receiving, Kennedy continued to bleed heavily, and though the attendant was able to give him oxygen, he could do nothing about his failing heartbeat. At the hospital, General Practitioner V. Faustin Bazilauskas and Surgeon Albert Holt found Kennedy in extremis, his blood pressure "zero over zero," his heartbeat almost imperceptible. "Bob! Bob! Bob!" Bazilauskas shouted, slapping his face repeatedly. There was no response...
...been on a never ending Freedom Ride in pursuit of meaningful progress for the poor and oppressed...
...Hofheinz has a new spectacular: Astroworld. It opened last week, a 57-acre amusement park near Houston's Astrodome and still another of Hofheinz' ventures, a convention center called Astrohall. Yes, it rained on opening day. Such attractions as a simulated sleigh ride down the 65-ft.-high Der Hofheinzberg and most of the boats to carry visitors through a Lost World Adventure were not functioning. The next night, the Astrowheel-the world's first futuristic Ferris wheel-groaned to a halt, marooning 40 riders high above the action...