Word: riding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voting would go. Kashmir's popular Premier, Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, is for union with India. For religious as well as economic reasons, many of his countrymen (85% Mohammedan) would vote for Pakistan. Said a Kashmiri village elder: "In the old days, one candidate offered us a ride to the voting place, a second offered us money. Then, even so, we voted for the third...
Married. Wanda Hendrix, 20, green-eyed, up & coming cinemactress (Ride the Pink Horse, Miss Tatlock's Millions); and Audie Murphy, 24, rookie cinemactor and World War II's most beribboned U.S. soldier (18 medals and decorations, plus the Medal of Honor); in Los Angeles...
Harvard hopes in the 145-pound division will ride with Dave Shapiro, a sophomore in his first year of wrestling. Shapiro triumphed in a jayvee match earlier this year. He replaces Buddy King, who will be unable to make the trip, and his main objective against Columbia's third best wrestler, Ed Naumann, will be to avert a pin. Jordan describes Shapiro as "the hardest working kid on the squad, except...
...Charter, one of the U.S.'s brood of nonscheduled airlines, postponed the eastbound flight of its DC-3 for an hour, then two hours. The big commercial lines had canceled all flights. But the owner of the DC-3 had a big payload waiting impatiently for a ride-27 Yale students from the Northwest had chartered the plane for the trip back to New Haven after the Christmas holidays...
...Hogan had little to start out with. He was the son of Chester Hogan, the town blacksmith in Dublin, Tex. It was cattle country and most of Blacksmith Hogan's business was shoeing cow ponies. A silent, left-handed runt of a kid, Ben learned how to ride and to fight with his fists...