Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enzo Ferrari, the mere fact of victory is less vital than interpreting aright the lessons that the races burn into his automobiles. Says he: "The importance of a race is not so much who is the victor, but the technical results that show whether the engineer is on the right road and progressing." To make sure that he stays on the right road, Ferrari hustles his cars back to his Maranello factory after a race. There they are disassembled and minutely examined by their maker for flaws and hints on how to improve their performance...
...tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal in the world. But other cowmen complain that it is prone to some diseases such as cancer eye and udder burn. The Aberdeen Angus, still growing in popularity, is first-rate under ideal conditions. But it has a reputation for being hard to handle. The hump-backed Brahman, immune to India's heat and insects, is undeniably tough, but so is its meat. A few massive, pale brown Charollaise have...
...Budge. In the summer of 1954 the white county engineer, Philip Partridge, a hot antisegregationist, became so incensed over the board's action that he tried to burn Lincoln down (he was convicted of arson and sentenced to 1 to 15 years, paroled after serving nine months). Later, five Negro mothers took their case to court. All this failed to budge the board an inch. When school opened that fall, 22 Negro children who tried to get into Webster were turned away. Their mothers, refusing to send them to Lincoln, began tutoring them at home...
While she was questioned, Mrs. Marks tried to light two more fires; to Secret Service agents she explained that she had a lot of trash and wanted to burn it. The agents determined that she lived in St. Clair Shores, Mich., had arrived in Washington two days earlier by bus, that since 1932 she had periodically been in mental hospitals. She was packed off to Gallinger Hospital for observation because, as Presidential Press Secretary Hagerty explained it, she was "not quite lucid...
...Riesel turned off Broadway and down silent 51st Street. By habit he had taken off his glasses. Half a block from Broadway, a young man stepped from the building shadows and threw a bottle of searing, concentrated sulphuric acid into Riesel's face. The columnist clutched at his burn ing eyes, gasping, "My gosh, my gosh!" The young man walked away and was swallowed up by the night and the city...