Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...save himself from the cap pistol of a 3½-year-old Roy Rogers. When Stevenson and Kefauver started to board their chartered plane in Chicago, their aides looked for a routine that had already become familiar. At the foot of the ramp (or when getting into a car or starting through a doorway), Estes places his big hand between Stevenson's shoulder blades, pushes gently and says, "After you, Adduhlay." Adlai places his smaller hand on Kefauver's elbow, pushes softly and says, "After you, Estes." Stevenson, the more impatient of the two, always gives...
...siding, and Caldarelli suddenly raced across the track, opened two locks and threw the switch. The streamliner, instead of rushing past at 40 to 45 m.p.h. on the main line, roared into the open switch, onto the siding, and plowed head on into the mail train. One Pullman car, flung into the air by the force of the crash, dropped atop a dormitory car in which the Chief's dining-car employees were asleep; the next Pullman rammed into the crushed dormitory car from the rear. The toll: 20 dead, all of them Santa Fe employees; 35 injured, most...
...Presidential Car. Nasser himself was courteous and smiling when the committee came to his modest Nileside office -"probably the only office in Cairo," said a reporter, "without a picture of Nasser." He seated his guests-Menzies, U.S. Career Ambassador Loy Henderson, Sweden's Foreign Minister Osten Unden, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Gholi Ardalan and Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Ato Aklilu Abte Wold-in armchairs round a blond mahogany table. To make the give-and-take as easy as possible, the group agreed to do without stenographers and to keep an absolute news blackout. Then Menzies...
...pregnant daughter-in-law Nancy and a somber Adlai Jr. ("We don't want our boys going to Korea as you did," says Dad), picnicked on the lawn with ex-Mayor of Philadelphia Joseph Clark, trundled a huge bag of groceries (packed mostly with wadded paper) from his car to the front porch, where he sat down, delivered a homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were a big help, Guv!"), bantered farm problems over the back fence with Estes Kefauver, cavorted about a well-clipped lawn with...
...Engineer Alan Adair, 30, unhappily divorced and tired of life, parked his car alongside Los Angeles' Ballona Creek one evening and washed down a handful of barbiturate sleeping pills with milk. Then he made notes: "7:26. Now I wonder how long it will take ... 7:31. Everyone wonders what it is like to die. I'm going to find out. 7:39. I can barely see." When police spotted the car at 2:45 a.m., Adair was in a deep coma. Fortunately, his record told doctors at Santa Monica Hospital how much barbiturate he had taken...