Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took off smoothly from the Cebu airport and into the moon-bright Philippine night. It was 1:17 a.m., and the plane radioed the tower at Malacanan Palace to have President Ramon Magsaysay's car at Manila's Nichols Field at 3:15 a.m. Then there was only silence. Two hours later, when the plane failed to arrive, the silence became ominous. By dawn, Philippine naval vessels and air-force planes, later joined by the U.S. Air Force, were scouring the lovely inland sea between Cebu and Manila. By radio and whisper, the news spread: the Philippines...
Five & Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, son of Barbara Hutton and just turned 21, proved himself one of the few contemporary playboys without self-delusions. Announcing that he will soon descend from his new mountaintop eyrie in Beverly Hills to go to Italy and some sports-car racing, well-heeled Driver Reventlow forthrightly justified his indolence: "I guess you might say I'm a playboy. But I like what I'm doing, and I'm never bored like so many people are who work all the time...
...Marquis de Portago does his dangerous living in the world of sports. At 28. lean and swarthy Alfonso de Portago has been a champion jai-alai player, a fine swimmer, a superb polo player, a leading gentleman jockey, an Olympic bobsled star, and is one of the best sports-car racers in the world. When he rolls his sleek, shovel-nosed 3.5-liter Ferrari up to the starting line for the Florida International twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring this week, he will be one of three or four favorites in a field of many champions...
Preliminary Report. In Great Falls, Mont., Maurice Lemieux raced off to telephone police that a wheel and tire had been stolen from his parked car, returned to find all four gone...
BLACK MARKET in 1957 U.S. autos is thriving in Japan with help of U.S. servicemen. Japan limits foreign auto imports to fewer than 1,000 a year, but permits a serviceman to import one U.S. car yearly, duty-free. Japanese dealers openly advertise $1,000 fee for homebound U.S. serviceman who will order new U.S. car and apply for Japanese license plates (for which he must present his discharge papers), turn car over to dealer, who can then sell it at huge profit...