Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classless. In fact, the party press has reported that, proportionately, more middle-level executives are entitled to chauffeur-driven cars in Socialist countries than in the West. Government ministers and factory managers in each of the East European countries fight constantly to enlarge their own pool of cars. They ride in everything from Fiat 600s to Russian Moskvichi, but favor the big and prestigious German Mercedes...
...backbone of the TV industry." It hardly matters that, short of featuring a priest on a pogo stick, there are not many plots left beyond The Flying Nun. Producers of westerns have learned that a good way to save on dialogue is to let each of the "ride-bys"-the good guys chasing the bad guys-run on for an extra 20 seconds or so. Says one TV writer: "The civil rights movement has saved us temporarily. What we do now is drag out one of the old plots and add a new sociological dimension by casting a Negro...
...trading post, stuffed his burlap sack with groceries, and when Trader Cal Foutz asked why he had not ridden his horse, laconically replied: "The horse didn't want to go." Another Indian, bored by the snow-bound routine in his mud-and-wood hogan, went for a horseback ride and waved casually at a passing haylift helicopter- then was nearly bombed by bales of unneeded hay and canned goods...
...bomb range of 20 kilotons. But it was no less menacing for being a minibang. Unless it was a partial dud-as Peking's unaccustomed silence, led some to believe-its improved miniaturization indicated that China has advanced well along in its countdown toward bombs tidy enough to ride missiles to their targets...
...publications are earnestly making the scene these days, but not for very long. They hitch a ride with passing fads; when the fads run out of gas, they do too. One new monthly, Cheetah, has a better chance of survival because it covers all the current fads without being overly rapturous about them. It is, in fact, quite often acidly funny about them, which is calculated to turn hippies off but to turn other sorts of readers on. Unlike hippies, Cheetah people know their way around. Chairman of the Board Matty Simmons is a graduate of the Diners' Club...