Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blast of the concealed bomb tore the stalled Ford into shrapnel. It blew the Rambler off the road; the little car plunged in flames over a cliff into the steep gorge of the Beirut River. All five adults in the car were killed at once; the girl died hours later. The charred body of Fayet Esrouer came to rest sitting on a cliffside rock, feet propped up as if still on brakes, and hands still clutching the wheel that was no longer there. On the asphalt of the highway, the motorcycle cop was sprawled dead. Behind him, two gendarmes...
Developing a 1,000,000-lb. engine, says Rocketdyne, will take perhaps five years, but it will not require any new scientific breakthroughs. The present Thor engine, which is about as big as a small sports car, will be scaled up to about three times as big. New alloys (probably tungsten-molybdenum-nickel) will be needed for the walls of the thrust chamber, whose temperature will rise from 1,000°-1,200° range to the 1,800°-2,000° range. Combustion-chamber pressure will rise from the current 300-500-lb. range toward...
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany...
...bona fide customers. But there was no agreement on the prices to customers. For the dealers, Dean Chaffin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, scoffed at the indictment. Said he: "If there was any attempt to fix prices, it was certainly a colossal failure. As every new-car buyer knows, for the past several years the retail prices of new cars have been the prices the customers have negotiated." Nevertheless, the Justice Department plans to continue its price-fixing probe in New York, San Francisco and other cities...
...many a disgruntled used-car buyer around the country, Mrs. Marcella Norman of Houston last week became the woman of the year. Mrs. Norman, a comely, 31-year-old divorced waitress who supports her four children, went to Houston's Metro Lincoln-Mercury Motor Co. a month ago to trade in her 1955 Ford for a newer car. She bought a 1957 blue Chevrolet sedan, thought she had signed a contract to pay $57.10 a month for 18 months. But when she checked the contract a few days later, she discovered that she would have...