Word: bike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a lone College freshman was pursuing a band of local bicycle thieves last night, a University policeman was on his way to the scene of a mass bike theft in the Freshman Yard...
BICYCLE TARIFFS are going up 50% to protect U.S. manufacturers from foreign competition. With imported bikes grabbing off nearly 40% of the U.S. market, President Eisenhower last week jacked up tariff rates from 7½ to 11¼% on popular, lightweight, large-wheel models, as high as 22½% on other foreign-made bikes. Estimated increase in retail prices to U.S. cyclists: up to $5 a bike. Increase in U.S.-made bike prices: none...
...Bike. Dag followed family tradition, went into government service. He was Under Secretary of Finance in charge of the Budget at 31. At night, Stockholm cops would point to a single light burning in the Treasury building and say, "Hammarskjold's still counting." Occasionally he would stop at the barber's shop for a 7 a.m. shave on his way home from the office...
Poker Price. He began by racing motorcycles. As a schoolboy, he played poker to raise the price of bike rentals, and he competed wherever he could-from the Milan piazza to the open-road races through northern and central Italy. He cracked up soon and often, but he kept coming back. In 1940, when he was 21, he graduated to autos. Small, stock Fiats were his first mounts; for his first big races in the Mille Miglia and at Palermo, he managed to get hold of a Ferrari. Motor trouble forced him out each time...
With the wind behind him, an American bike beneath him, and the members of Wellesley's Outing Club awaiting him, Werner Genieser '56 pedaled to the shores of Lake Waban in a record 46 minutes and 28 seconds in the Wellesley Bike Race Saturday afternoon...