Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people. It was true, though, that the First Family?Jimmy, Rosalynn, Amy, Chip and Jack?soon became about as isolated as a modern First Family can get. Climbing aboard an 8-ft. by 20-ft. wooden-floored rubber raft, they set out for a threeday, 71-mile ride down the utterly uninhabited Middle Fork of the Salmon River. To be sure, Secret Service agents bobbed along near by in other rafts, and rotating teams of reporters trailed at a distance?but with firm orders to keep out of the President's sight. Indeed, as Carter cast off, he aimed...
...drinking cistern-stored water. Two or three times a week he had to drive her to Charity Hospital in New Orleans. "They lent me a dialysis machine, but I had no water to hook it up. It had to run off my old wooden cistern. Each night I would ride to Lake Hermitage [now Lake Judge Perez] to get water to keep it running. The doctors at Charity tried to get parish officials to help me find a place to live with running water, but none of them lifted a hand." Within a year, the doctors personally raised enough money...
Fittingly, Hua was given a boisterous reception-although one that was carefully gauged not to exceed that given Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev on his last visit to Bucharest. After an open-air limousine ride into the capital amid crowds estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, Hua held private conversations with Ceauşescu, and was expected to visit the oil center of Ploesti, the Black Sea port of Constanta, and the Danube River port of Galati, which is within sneering distance of the Soviet border...
...best protection of all," says Deak, "is to stay deeply engaged in the system, to ride with the rough waves and hope to stay on the crest." That is a remarkable conclusion for a bear, but Deak explains that people will do all right if they have goods or services or skills to market, for those will always be in demand. The people who stand to suffer are the untrained and the unlettered, which is a most important reason that inflation must be crushed and severe crisis avoided...
...crash course in water survival at the U.S. Air Force Base in Homestead, Fla. Zooming down a 45-ft. tower into warm, stagnant water, sliding under an open parachute, crawling in and out of at least three rafts and getting lifted up by a helicopter hoist, Astronaut Candidate Sally Ride, 27, screamed "No!" to a photographer who begged for "a happy look." Not all the astronautical hopefuls felt such aversion to media coverage. Pouted one of 42 men in the program: "We're mere commoners...