Word: auto
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Indianapolis Speedway (Tues. 11:45 a.m., Mutual). Annual auto race...
...C.I.O. Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther puts the figure much higher. Said he: a $2,089 annual budget (more than to times the average Social Security old-age payment to married men) is the minimum for an elderly couple who are "too old to work and too young...
Mexico opened its new 2,178-mile Texas-to-Guatemala highway last week with a thrill-packed six-day auto race for passenger stock models. Mexicans by the millions took the curves and cliffs vicariously, via press and radio. In the capital, people carried portable radios in buses and streetcars to get the blowout-by-blowout reports...
Competing for the 300,000-peso ($34,000) top prizes were 132 two-man teams including such hot drivers as Indianapolis Speedway veteran Johnny Mantz, Italy's Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1948 Grand Prix de Berne auto race, and President Miguel Aleman's chauffeur, whose handsome new Cadillac, fresh from the palace garage, bore the name Coche México. There was a Los Angeles war veteran driving a 13-year-old Cord, a red-haired torch singer from Mexico City, a Texas grandmother sponsored by a brassiere manufacturer, and a 70-year-old Arizona widow with...
...last 115-mile leg from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to the border was unpaved. The temperature hit 105°. In the end, the race got down to two dogged U.S. drivers: 22-year-old Hershel McGriff, part owner of an auto-repair shop in Portland, Ore., driving a 1950 Oldsmobile, and Tommy Deal of El Paso, driving a Cadillac. But McGriff's six-day time was better than Deal's by one minute, 16 seconds. Victory was worth 150,000 pesos ($17,000) to him, Co-Driver Pay Elliott and their backers...