Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husky cop named Joe Morris tore off his earphones, made for the office of Lawyer Abraham Teitelbaum, counsel and general organizer of the Restaurant Association. The cops glued a 24-hour bodyguard around Teitelbaum; later Labriola and Weinberg were found drugged and strangled in the trunk of an abandoned car-presumably because the mob considered that they were both hot and talky...
...equally big change was also made at Chevrolet. After seven years as division chief, Vice President Thomas Keating, 61, moved into a new job as head of all G.M. passenger-car divisions. Into Keating's chair went Chevy's Chief Engineer Edward N. Cole, 46, one of G.M.'s best engineering brains. Starting out as a Cadillac laboratory assistant in 1930, he was the division's chief engineer by 1946, three years later developed the industry's first V-8 high-compression engine that kicked off the horsepower race. He moved to Chevy...
...industry. Now task forces that may number hundreds are thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they can explore in a few weeks problems that would take an unaided worker years. In Detroit, where Henry Ford once puttered with his new car in an old stable, while his wife held the lantern, Chrysler Corp. has 200 scientists and engineers assigned solely to gas-turbine engine development...
...Back Way. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, after householders reported that a car was tearing around the neighborhood in reverse, Assistant Police Chief Reine Schmidt investigated, found behind the wheel a teen-age girl who explained: "My folks let me have the car, and I ran up a little too much mileage. I was just unwinding some...
Crag to Crag. In Wauwatosa, Wis., Mrs. Joan Buge, 50, was fined $35 for negligent operation of a car and $15 for disorderly conduct after she drove away from an accident scene, fled from the police station as she was being booked, was fished out of a drugstore phone booth two blocks away, leaped out of a squad car on the way to the county jail when it stopped at a railroad crossing, lay down on the tracks until three patrolmen got her back in the car, clung to the side of the car at the jail...