Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move was one that King had long feared; he had, in fact, tried to forestall it by having the name of a different Negro church printed on the side of each of the 20 new station wagons that the M.I.A. had bought for the car pool. One day last November as King and his M.I.A. colleagues were in court fighting a losing battle against the injunction, there was a stir among the white lawyers. They had seen a news dispatch: the U.S. Supreme Court had declared bus segregation illegal in Montgomery. Cried a fervent Negro: "God Almighty has spoken from...
...Hungarian refugee camp outside Vienna, two members of the Hungarian Repatriation Delegation arrived in search of the "thousands and thousands" of refugees that Radio Budapest was saying now wanted to return home. Near the camp gate 50 refugees spotted the Kadar men in the convoy's third car, and leaped to grab them. A special police detail assigned to the delegation by apprehensive Austrians wrested the refugees off the car...
...delegates talked to her, the crowd outside burned the banner with its Kadar effigy, stamped on it, spat on it. The cry rang out: "Menjetek a pokolba" (Go to hell!). Only fast work by their driver saved the Communists on their getaway. Again, screaming refugees leaped on the car and pelted it with mud as it sped off. Two days later, pleading "so few" applicants, the repatriation delegation called off all further camp visits...
Monster at Cremona. The new 300-h.p., 2.5-liter car develops 30 h.p. more than its smaller stablemate, ought to grind out an extra 6 m.p.h. on the fast tracks at Rheims and Monza. It is something of a throwback to the days when old Alfieri startled the road-racing fancy with his Sedici Cilindri a 16-cylinder job that set a 152.9 m.p.h. record at Cremona in 1929. But the Sedici Cilindri was a bastard car, with a power plant made of a pair of eight-cylinder engines, the two crankshafts coupled in a single gear...
...Buenos Aires bus driver, is a four-time world champion. Under the benevolent sponsorship of Dictator Juan Peron he parlayed his home-town popularity into a wealthy G.M. distributorship in Buenos Aires. He has continued to do well as a driver abroad. At the wheel of a racing car he is an artist. His fine mechanic's ear is attuned to the engine's telltale throb; his feet and hands are sensitive to every vibration. He rarely strains his car, rarely pushes it past the limits of mechanical endurance. His technique is ideal for the grinding demands...