Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Triomphe, De Gaulle paused briefly to rekindle the flame at the tomb of France's unknown soldier. Then, re-entering his car, he moved on across the Seine to Mont Valérien, a historic fort that overlooks a tiny, sandy valley where 4,000 Frenchmen were executed during the Nazi occupation. His face working with emotion, De Gaulle relit the flame of the resistance, prayed for a few moments at the tomb of the 16 resistance heroes buried in the fort. When at last the defiant strains of the Marseillaise rolled out over the valley, there was unabashed...
With these boldfaced, blaring lines on its front page, the London Sunday Pictorial last week splashed the gaudy tale of a murderer who could talk freely about his crime. In 1950 Donald Hume was tried for the murder of a tinhorn used-car dealer named Stanley Setty. After his first trial produced a hung jury, the judge presiding at his second trial directed the jurors to find Hume not guilty of murder. Hume pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of being an accessory after the fact-he had dumped Setty's dismembered body from an airplane over the Thames...
AUTO PRICING BILL, passed by Senate to require carmakers to stick a "suggested" retail price on each car delivered (TIME, May 19), is being bucked belatedly by Justice Department. Trustbusters contend that bill might actually tend to fix prices, would not give buyer sufficient protection...
...Monroe, Mich., when a deputy sheriff found 52 pairs of dice in Carroll Hawkins' car, Hawkins maintained that he was going to use them to make a top for his wife's coffee table...
...most talked-about literary movements of the late '50s. Britain's Angry Young Men fret about social mobility, the harsh grind of shifting class gears. The "go, go, go" men of the U.S. Beat Generation are caught in a frantic physical reverie of "a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road." The question ultimately juts up: Are these self-appointed spokesmen for the 20th century young moving in a quest for meaning, or a flight from...