Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with razor blades half-buried in potatoes or the point of a razor-sharp shiv. Last week London's sensational penny press was black with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled up in a car before a dingy boarding house in Maida Vale, crossed the sidewalk in broad daylight, entered the house and pumped lead into a sleazy race-track gambler. "Police believe," reported the conservative Daily Telegraph, "that the murder is gang war with the lid off . . . The razor and knuckle-duster gangs have turned...
...location to climb aboard the buses of the Evaton Passenger Bus Service and ride to their jobs in the big factories of Vereeniging, Vanderbijl Park and Johannesburg. Then, a year ago, the white-owned bus company raised its fare. Thousands of Evaton's commuters began riding bicycles, forming car pools in native-owned cabs, or taking the slower railroad to work. As the boycott spread (as bus boycotts spread in the U.S.−see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), those who persisted in paying the higher bus fares found themselves threatened by those who refused to. Dozens were injured and at least...
...Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 30, had slipped across the nearby New York State line and got married in suburban White Plains. The day had been marred by a tragic interlude: Russian Princess Mara Scherbatoff, 48, New York bureau chief of France's weekly Paris Match, was killed when her car, pursuing the lovers down a hairpin road, rammed a tree. But now, at Playwright Miller's rural retreat, joy was unbounded. Mama Miller hauled out her chicken and everybody dug into the wedding feast. In the big cities the headlines were beginning to roar the news, OUR MAN KISSED...
...been at it for 35 years. At 73, he holds the record for 1,000 miles (at 172.8 m.p.h.) ; 3,000 miles (at 165 m.p.h.); for 24 hours (at 161.84 m.p.h.), among others. Last week old Ab Jenkins climbed behind the wheel again in a Class C stock car 24-hour endurance trial at Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Flats...
...windows in Jenkins' car, a borrowed two-door Pontiac sedan, were rolled up as he pounded around the circular ten-mile track, and the temperature inside the car rose to a stifling 120°. Jenkins gave no sign of needing a relief driver, but after 9½ hours, his nervous wife insisted that he turn the wheel over to their 36-year-old son Marvin. Ab jauntily downed two glasses of milk, was soon back at the wheel, in all drove for 16 of the 24 hours. Despite a broken patch of track which caused the car to swerve...