Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford spent a quarter of a billion to style the Edsel differently from any other car. They made it. From the front it appears about to regurgitate...
Into the Mud. With the aplomb of a man who has had such a request before, the ambassador rounded up his equipment and loaded it into a police car that appeared out front. During the 15-minute ride, he shucked the striped pants and swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where...
...alumni fondly recall the ways of the "tender tyrant": she had her students carrying packages for her and driving her car, called them in the middle of the night to do copying work for her. In Teacher Boulanger, they found not only a diamond-edged musical intelligence but a sinewy will that forced them to hew rigidly to the demands of their talents. The distinguished Boulanger alumni-they call themselves the "Boulangerie"-were gathered in all parts of the world last week to celebrate her 70 birthday. At the split-level chalet of Conductor Igor Markevitch, in the Swiss Alps...
...waving spectators roared hoarsely, Roberts climbed into a Thomas Flyer, yanked down his goggles and dusted out of Times Square, pitted against five other massive autos in the first New York-to-Paris-via-the-West auto race. Surviving mud burials in Iowa, sandstorms in Montana, Roberts left his car mates in San Francisco, and they brought the battered Thomas-"the best car in the world in 1908"-into Paris on July 30, 26 days ahead of its nearest competitor (three of the six made the finish...
Besides the newsmen, a few families owning adjoining property, and the soldiers themselves, only a handful saw the United States Army staff car which unloaded nine Negro students in front of Central High School at 9:22 this morning...