Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COLES PHILLIPS Laguna Beach, Calif...
...WHITMAN Long Beach, Calif...
...cars that rolled onto the hard sands of Daytona Beach last week for the eighth annual safety and performance trials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Rating, Inc. were-as the admen promised-roomier, lower and more powerfully propelled than ever before. To some of the spectators who crowded the dunes and gabbled knowingly of racing cams and fuel injection and four-barrel carburetors, the competition was a sporting event. To auto-industry pitchmen, it was the beginning of a multimillion-dollar campaign designed to keep a performance-happy public popeyed and buying...
...with nothing to hide, Boss Beck's recent behavior had been highly peculiar. Within the past three weeks he had: 1) declined, pleading illness, to appear before a Senate subcommittee investigating misuse of union funds; 2) turned up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at the Miami Beach midwinter meeting of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council. There he cast the sole vote against a policy statement calling for removal of union officers who plead the Fifth Amendment, particularly at Government rackets investigations (TIME, Feb. 11). After the vote Beck stamped out, and the word was that he was headed home...
Another Color. In Miami Beach, Fla., arrested for possession of horse-betting equipment, Joseph Matthews told cops why he carried a set of earplugs: "I use them so other people can't tout...