Word: allards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Sports Car Races on the runways of Offutt Air Force Base at Omaha, photographers came upon General Curtis E. LeMay, chief of the Strategic Air Command, got him to pose in a flowery shirt and crash helmet behind the wheel of his souped-up Cadillac-Allard...
Racing Driver Bob Wilder, 32, gunned his English-built Oldsmobile-Allard out of the short curve, tires screeching, and sped on toward the little hump-backed bridge. Driver Wilder, a veteran of sport-car racing, knew what to expect at the crest of the bridge: a brief, soaring pitch with all four wheels off the ground, then a jolt as the car settled to the roadway again-then a strong foot on the gas for the next hill. But Driver Wilder never made the hill. His Allard smacked down askew on the roadway, veered, skidded up a bank and turned...
Cigar-chewing Curt LeMay, a sports-car enthusiast who does his own highway driving in a Cadillac-Allard, was on hand to watch a pet LeMay project. Airport racing, with admissions at $2 a head, swells the treasuries of Air Force Aid societies and local charities, pays for barracks improvements and gives SAC airmen a constructive off-duty hobby-tinkering with engines. Moreover, the Sports Car Club gains the advantage of sporty, twisting courses on the runways, where chance spectators are not so apt to wander out into the turns as they sometimes do in road racing...
...Dirk Struik of M.I.T. and Allard Lowenstein, second year law student at Yale, took the negative of the question, "Should Universities be investigated." For the affirmative were Kenneth D. Robertson '29, and Thomas Dorgan, Clerk of the Superior Civil Court...
Sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Student Council, the forum features Dirk J. Struik, suspended professor of Mathematics at M.I.T. Allard K. Lowenstein, former head of NSA and Students for Stevenson, Thomas Morgan, clerk of the Massachusetts Superior Civil Court, and Kenneth D. Robertson '29, Boston businessman and originator of the class "Free Enterprise Fund." Arthur N. Holcombe, Eaton Professor of Government, is moderator...