Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the upper hand, Batista drove boldly around the city while his cops proceeded to make their supremacy complete. When a patrol car radioed that it had clashed with rebels and had "a dead man and a prisoner," the dispatcher ordered: "Shoot him." At midafternoon, cops burst into a boardinghouse, grabbed three young men who were leaders of Cuba's lay Catholic Action movement, which sympathizes with Castro. Two hours later their stripped, tortured and bullet-torn bodies were turned over to relatives. Total dead...
...will be Frank Katzentine, owner of Radio Station WKAT, whose turned-down application for Miami's TV Channel Ten raised a storm during the House investigation of the Federal Communications Commission. Up the street are S. S. Kresge (5 & 10? stores) and Paul Hexter (son-in-law of car-rental Tycoon John Hertz). The Dodges knew little of the new owner; Mrs. Dodge said she met him once and found him "charming." When she heard he had been run out of Venezuela at gunpoint she was somewhat taken aback. "Oh!" she exclaimed...
...show with some advance info on the stock market. Then I'll go into a soft shoe with the girls, followed by a hot mambo with one of the girls . . ." The finale: "Onstage, you'll see an exact replica of my New York Mirror prowl car with me in it. I'll go across the stage-very fast. Then 24 beautiful girls -probably in G strings-come out swinging billies like a bunch of fairies with nothing but a silver badge on their left breast, blowing police whistles...
Spinning around the great circuits of the world, one whining, bright red racer topped them all last year: Italy's Maserati, the car that whisked Juan Manuel Fangio to a world championship and many another driver to fame in the last 30 years. To Maserati's makers, Adolfo Orsi and his son Omar, the fame was expected to pave the way for quantity production of a new richly appointed sports-touring car rivaling Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari. When tighter new rules outmoded their biggest racers last fall, the Orsis were ready to quit racing and plunge completely into...
...Bird. In Deep River, Conn., Ronald G. Hagg, found guilty of swerving his car to kill a pheasant, was fined $50 for 1) using a motor vehicle in hunting, 2) hunting out of season, 3) hunting on Sunday, 4) driving on the wrong side of the road...