Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rudolph is largely free, therefore, from political pressures. Not beholden to Cambridge residents or votes, he can ride out public criticism more easily than can a City Councillor. But in addition, Rudolph's scheme is intelligent, and will probably be effective in relieving the City's chronic congestion. Many of his recommendations are based on a study of traffic in the Harvard Square area which was commissioned by local commercial interests in 1962. And Rudolph has carefully avoided several of the mistakes which crippled the abortive plan ten years...
...guaranteeing indigents free access to any state. And last month a three-judge federal court in Connecticut cited that case in throwing out the state's one-year-residency requirement. Connecticut will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court -and the residency laws of some 40 other states will ride on the results...
...most fans the dogs are the least important aspect of a night at the track. Greyhound racing is a participation sport, not a spectator sport, and the participation involves risking a valued belonging. Betting puts an edge on life, brings a vividness costlier than a roller-coaster ride. But why is its thrill worth the money thrown away for it? Less than 28 per cent of the $500,000 bet each night is winning money. But the fans keep coming back, and even though the percentages are against them, they go right on betting...
Women are also a vital part of the enemy's recruitment program. In a fetching ceremony of farewell to village life, V.C. maidens drape departing youths with flowers. Women are also entrusted with keeping in line those villagers who remain behind. Song-and-dance teams ride the circuit of V.C.-held territory to help in the task, crooning the latest political messages. The enemy has not overlooked the immemorial value of women in espionage. In smaller towns, nearly every market has a sharp-eyed little-old-lady vendor who is not what she seems. In Saigon the seamstresses...
...less than the national equivalent of a heat wave, with temperatures soaring to nearly 70° as Jacqueline Kennedy, 37, arrived at Shannon Airport with Caroline, 9, and John-John, 6, for a six-week vacation in "this land my husband loved so much." First came an 80-mile ride by chartered bus past waving onlookers in Clare, Limerick and Tipperary, before the Kennedys settled in at Woodstown House, a 40-room Regency mansion on the southeast coast overlooking a huge, secluded beach. To keep the holiday private, there is a roving band of 200 policemen, 30 armed detectives...