Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luce's curiosity was insatiable-he sprayed questions in all directions wherever he went. Correspondents, notified that H.R.L. was about to appear in their territory, frequently gave themselves cram courses of vital statistics about the area to cope with his barrage of queries. The ride in from the airport was legendary, and many a correspondent prepared himself by making the run a couple of times with a guide-only to have Harry ask him about some distant ruin he had failed to notice. It was even more disconcerting when Luce knew more than he did-as when TIME...
...issues of higher runs were similarly grabbed up. LIFE's advertising rates had been set for the first year with the expectation of a small and slowly growing circulation. When the demand for it went beyond the capacity of the presses to print, advertisers swarmed aboard for a free ride, while the bills for paper and ink alone swallowed up the magazine's revenues?and then some. Before launching LIFE, Luce had declared: "It can be safely assumed that $1,000,000 will see LIFE safely through to a break-even 500,000 circulation or to an honorable grave...
...1920s, oriental potentates began ordering their Rolls-Royces with smoke-blackened windows so that their wives could ride comfortably "in purdah"-screened off from the eyes of other men. Now "purdah glass" has been revived, and is the latest rage of London...
...balance of terror" that has preserved an uneasy nuclear peace for the past two decades. Some American military men argue that any "defensive" Russian ABM system may actually be a sign of belligerence, a signal that its builders are preparing to make the first strike, while getting ready to ride out the U.S. response. Besides, the cold logic of deterrence works only when the opponent is capable of understanding it. What if the uneasy ruler of a new nuclear power were to make an irrational decision that he had more to gain than to lose from an attack...
...passengers a day, the New York City subway system offers the world's longest ride. Last week, to make that ride pleasanter, the Transit Authority issued a list of 39 new, delicately detailed rules regulating the behavior of passengers both on trains and in stations, and for good measure, on buses as well...