Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LADY at Revere Beach needs to get off the ground. She should take a ride on the Ferris Wheel. She won't though: it is far away behind a fence and she would have to struggle through the crowd and they would all stare at her. She might not even know it's there...
...succeeding. In 1958, locusts devoured 167,000 tons of crops in Ethiopia, starving thousands. Last summer the anti-locust London Center got reports of gathering clouds of locusts that posed an even greater threat. From weather satellite pictures of cloud formations, trackers could map wind patterns. Since locusts ride the winds, spray planes knew where to go. Once they had made contact, they dumped their loads of spray through atomizers, one right after the other, until the swarms were stopped. On the ground, pesticide squads struck breeding areas. The winged locusts were turned back, and the young locusts died before...
...Police Chief Dominick Arena was back at his pre-Chappaquiddick chore of directing traffic. The sum mer residents of Martha's Vineyard were savoring the final days before they would pack their station wagons on Labor Day and head for the ferry at Vine yard Haven for their ride back to the mainland. But the Vineyard summer crowd will no sooner be gone than scores of reporters and camera crews will pour into Edgartown for the Sept. 3 inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Poucha Pond...
...anniversary itself began calmly. In peaceful protest, all but a few Czechoslovaks refused to ride the public transport, and boycotted shops and restaurants. In Prague, more than 300 bouquets were piled on the grave of Jan Palach, the 21-year-old student who last January burned himself to death in a protest against the continued Soviet occupation. At noon, to the cacophony of auto horns and factory whistles, traffic braked to a halt and many of the 50,000 people who jammed Wenceslas Square raised their fingers in the victory sign. In a show of defiance, Czechoslovakia stood still...
...Leadership Conference, and a vice president of drugmaker Bristol-Myers was flying to the same meeting in the company's jet. How about a lift? asked the Bristol-Myers man. Thanks, said the mayor and he climbed aboard. Then the city's Democratic politicians heard about the ride. They remembered that Section 1106 of the City Charter forbids city employees to accept "any valuable gift" in the form of a "service, loan, thing or promise" from anyone doing business with the city. And they were quick to point out that Bristol-Myers had sold New York...