Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winthrop? he asked. One with a motor would be better, Lester allowed. The answer was not lost on Nelson, who bought a pea-green motorbike and sent it to the statehouse in Atlanta. Put-putting happily around his office, Maddox offered his newest benefactor a free ride any time he comes south...
This midnight ride of American Motors engineers was a regular test in their effort to develop doors that slam with what automen call a solid "thunk." One result showed up last week as American Motors introduced the Hornet, its new small car, with an advertisement that urged: "Open a door and listen for the reassuring thunk you get when you close it." In auto showrooms, the sound of a car door slamming touches some responsive chord in the frazzled psyche of the American buyer-and all the automakers know it. "There is very little to go on when...
...stopped taking ground-up seeds, though, because once I took them be fore a vacation and had a bad trip [frightening experience]. I had to take a six-hour bus ride and then a plane. I took about 550 seeds just before the bus left. A lot of kids from school on the bus were stoned too. Some had grass and one guy drank two bottles of cough syrup. And it was really good for about an hour but then I started to freak. I felt like jumping off the bus. I just had to move. There were pine trees...
...subtlety of a Centurion tank. She seldom loses an argument, and once, after a heated policy dispute, so unnerved Dayan that he felt obliged to ask before he left her office: "Do you still love me, Golda?" Her convictions extend to her personal life. She still refuses to ride in a German-made car, and is so egalitarian that even as Premier she cooks her own breakfast and will occasionally make tea for a military courier. For all her toughness, she remains feminine enough to weep at the funeral of a soldier...
...still one of the youngest fellows around," read the birthday telegram from Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and the ex-Governor justified the historian's compliment with a six-mile ride across the Kansas countryside on his red Morgan horse. At 82, Alf London is a Topeka squire who keeps in touch with young people by conducting four seminars a year at Kansas State. "I answer all questions on all subjects," boasted Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 opponent, adding that he, for one, is not turned off by the Now Generation...