Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cafe outside the Gregg County seat of Longview in East Texas, a handful of teen-age Negroes drank soda pop, danced to the music of a beat-up jukebox, chattered happily just because it was Saturday night. Suddenly the cheerful inside noises were smeared by the snarl of a car outside, a sputtering of shots ("like a string of firecrackers," said one witness) and a scream...
...with cold-storage and meat-processing equipment) was dynamited and destroyed. The main building on an adjoining farm owned by the community was burned to the ground, and later twelve shotgun blasts were fired into the farm, showering some of the Koinonia children with pellets. One Sunday a 78-car motorcade of 153 robed and hooded Klansmen drove into Americus just after church, held a demonstration at the fairgrounds, then disrobed and went out to Koinonia to urge the community to move. Last week Koinonia's president, Virginia-born Norman Long, 32, still a member of the Baptist Church...
...four-day, 1,568-mile course from Los Angeles to Sun Valley the trophy-for the best gas mileage among 23 competing cars went to Chrysler's Imperial Crown, which averaged 64.5153 ton-miles per gallon, computed by multiplying the car's weight by mileage, dividing by gas consumed. Driver of the winning car...
This is the first year that women have entered the run under new rules providing that a woman may compete if a second identical car is piloted by a man. Restaurant Owner Mruy Davis of Los Angeles drove a Plymc;:th Belvedere to victory in her class, and tv;c other women placed second and third in their classes. The rest were automatically ruled out of the results because their male partners did better. Among the women drivers: Mrs. Mildred Alsbury, mother of the Alsbury brothers, who piloted an Imperial to official second place in the sweepstakes, was knocked...
...car break-down meant that the Crimson played the complete match on Saturday one man short in the scrum, and Dartmouth was unlucky not to score in the first few minutes of play...