Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lending projectors, the U.S. Air Force into ferrying 35 tons of equipment (four projectors, 72 speakers and a special 62,000-watt generator, since Cinerama alone could use all of Damascus' electricity). Last week, by special engraved invitation, the first audience-1,500 Syrian bigwigs and their families-rode the roller coaster, toured the U.S. by airplane, while the sound track chorused America, the Beautiful. The bigwigs (and 400 others who crashed the gates) seemed a little bewildered by it all. Undaunted, Peel decided Cinerama's real test would come when Syria's kaffiyeh-topped shepherds...
Lawyer son of a famous Indian fighter who lived to be 99, Vargas first rode out of Rio Grande do Sul in 1930 at the head of a gaucho army and seized the presidency. In power. Vargas rapidly won a name as the smartest politician in South...
BISHOP SANTE UBERTO BARBIERI, 52. Methodist of Buenos Aires also elected to the Council presidency. An Italian silk-weaver's son who started to read for the law while he rode about Brazil on a bony horse selling jewelry, Bishop Barbieri today heads a constituency half the size...
...senatorial candidate was not at the airport to meet the President. At lunch in the governor's mansion, Meek was not seated at Ike's table. When the presidential motorcade left for the fairgrounds, Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton and Indiana's Governor George Craig rode with Ike. Meek rode with his family, six cars behind. On the rostrum, when Meek was introduced, he bounded out of his chair, waved to the crowd and turned to shake hands with Ike. Startled, the President remained seated...
Leaving Massena, U.S. and Canadian officials rode across to a field near Cornwall, Ont. where Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Ontario's Premier Leslie Frost and Governor Dewey took silver-plated shovels in hand and broke ground for the project's powerhouse...