Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO WHEN SAIGON FELL, TEACHING high school. I picked up the paper after work and read it during the bus ride home. So. It was over, almost seven years to the day since I finished my own tour of duty in that already ancient war. When you've served in a war, gloriously or not-not, in my case-you are bound to take an interest in the news that your side has lost. I found nothing surprising in the reports of how effortlessly Saigon had been taken. But there was this picture: a helicopter perched...
...April 26 NVA forces had surrounded Saigon. That night ex-President Thieu was persuaded to leave while he still could; Ambassador Martin organized a group of cars to spirit him out of the city to Tan Son Nhut. Snepp, who went along on the ride, half expected Thieu and his American escorts to be hauled out of their cars and shot at some checkpoint by ARVN soldiers incensed at being abandoned. Nothing happened, but the little caravan took the precaution of racing onto the air base with lights out and braking to a skidding stop alongside a runway. Thieu...
Demons. Through May 5. AmericanRepertory Theatre Company, Hasty Pudding Theatre,12 Holyoke St., Cambridge. 547-8300. By RobertBrustein, this is a modern Faust play that willtake you on a wild ride down today's informationsuperhighway, through the laptop, the Internet,the CD-ROM and software adventure of a HarvardDivinity School professor...
...band." She stuck with it, spending much of her time as a teenager on the road and getting her high-school diploma through a correspondence course. In 1989 she and her band, Los Dinos, got their big break-a recording contract with giant EMI--and then began to ride the wave of Tejano music, now the fastest- growing segment of the Hispanic recording business. Her father still manages the band, which includes her brother and husband...
Duehay said the improvements might attract evenmore bicyclists, those who usually ride on theside walks of Garden St. and Mass. Ave. Instead,he recommended that a bicycle path be constructedwhere cars currently park, on the eastern sided ofGarden...