Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAILROAD COACH FARES cheaper than bus rates will be tried out by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad on the most heavily traveled section of its main line in Texas. Round-trip rates from San Antonio to Dallas will be cut from $13.20 to $8.80, v. the bus fare of $11.35. If a six-month trial works, the cut will be extended through the entire system, which has suffered a big drop in passenger revenues...
...White House, beforehand, he chatted with a group of war correspondents emplaning on a return trip to the beaches. He joshed the Chicago Tribune's spade-bearded Jack Thompson, whose whiskers are greying now: "There was a lot more brown in that beard." Like any old soldier, he talked of the war and reiterated the old unanswerable question: What did these sacrifices mean? Leaning against his desk, he said earnestly: "The people who know war, those that experienced it . . . I believe we are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world. I believe those people that talk about...
Yoshida had been scheduled to leave Japan last week for the U.S., seeking "loans and investments" to aid the nation's hard-pressed economy. At the last minute, because of the riot in the Diet, Yoshida had to cancel all plans, postponed his trip for several weeks, perhaps months...
Last month Cheshire made a weekend trip to the shrine at Lourdes. The experience moved him deeply and gave him an idea. Working from his hospital bed, he promptly put it into practice. His plan: to organize a series of airborne pilgrimages to Lourdes by friends of invalids, on the invalids' behalf. Last week the first group of 25 spent a weekend at the shrine (cost: about $36 each...
...Blade (Columbia) suggests that Hollywood may be getting as tired of making historical pictures as many moviegoers are of looking at them. Using plenty of stock shots and operating on a low budget, the film goes on a foot-dragging Technicolor pilgrimage through 13th century Italy, with a side trip to the Holy Land for one of the skimpiest Crusades in filmland history. Ricardo Montalban plays the peasant hero who does battle with evil barons, cruel Saracens and assorted charmers, including Betta St. John and blonde Carolyn Jones, a graduate of TV's Dragnet. Despite the costumes, the atmosphere...