Word: rubberneckers
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...inveterate rubberneck, he passed his long summer vacations in almost constant touring, often through Italy and occasionally Greece, but usually without his wife...
...impact upon the feverishly nationalistic (and often anti-Ameri can) East, but of Eleanorean durability. Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Na tions session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments...
Some 50,000 people ("a milling, surging, disorderly crowd," sniffed the surprised Boston Herald) broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71¼ tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner. When it paused at Hartford, 30,000 gawking sightseers eddied past its figure8 fuselage. At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats. Then it headed for San Francisco, soon dropped down on the International Air Terminal...
Meanwhile, the Trib's news pages continued their rubberneck tour through collegiate dens of Communism. After devoting eight articles to leftism in Harvard, McCormick published one story chronicling the history of Yale, two mentioning anglophiler at Princeton, and two more discussing internationalists in the whole Ivy League...
...tall, middle-aged Harry Bracy sold Kroger his chain of some 30 Thrift Stores for $1,000,000. He took a vacation trip to New York, where his chief dissipation was a ride on a rubberneck bus. Then he went back to his one room and bath in Carbondale's Roberts Hotel. Kroger soon found that business in the former Thrift Stores territory was dropping off. The company called in Bracy, by then bored at separation from his beloved stores. He told Kroger: "Give me a salary plus percentage of sales and no limit." Kroger agreed and put Bracy...