Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camp, the greens and browns of the lush German countryside give way abruptly to stark grey and black. The camera pans chains of shell-shocked, pajama-clad prisoners, herded through this labyrinth of death by expressionless guards with drawn sub-machine guns and attack dogs. With Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries punctuating its grisly movements, the camera catches sight of the grotesque forms of the hanged above the melee, pausing to observe the ironic inscription from Auschwitz which overlooks the courtyard: Arbeiten macht frei. Through this domain of death stalks its mistress, an obese female commandant whose impassive...
Diplomatic Success. Any such negotiations are at best in the distant future. For now, U.S. experts fear that Assad may be so flushed with diplomatic success that he will become increasingly intransigent. "He may try to ride things out until the U.S. is ready to take a more sweeping crack at the problem," observed a State Department Middle East expert. This means that Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy may, for the moment, be dead. Assad has said that Syria will refuse to attend a Geneva conference unless the P.L.O. is also given its own seat; these conditions...
...festivities will begin Friday morning with a ride on an antique train for Lampoon alumni from Philadelphia to Boston, he said...
...Shepherd: "Unlike most Indians of his age, Sanjay scorns Western-style clothes for a traditional knee-length kurta, worn over white cotton pajamas. Shy but well-spoken, Sanjay began by describing with obvious pride the car he designed from scratch. Later, when he took his guests for a ride, he tactfully inquired, 'Shall I drive fast or slow?' before tearing off on a test-drive performance over the bumpy roads and fields surrounding the Maruti factory. His guests' consensus on the car: noisy but seemingly sturdy." Excerpts from the interview...
...Most Nordic events will be staged at Seefeld, 15 miles to the northwest of the city; three miles south, at Igls and Patscherkofel, tourists can take in the bobsled, luge and men's downhill. The other alpine races will be held at Axamer Lizum, a 25-minute bus ride to the southwest from downtown...