Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hope, returned the jaunty wave of Negro Songstress Pearl Bailey. When it was time to leave, he took a few strides in the wrong direction, spun, and walked from the room so rapidly that the Secret Service men had to scurry to keep pace. As he entered his car he turned and asked if anyone wanted a ride. There were no takers. By 11 p.m. the President was back in the White House...
...Blizzard. The trouble-beset auto industry seemed to be finally digging itself out of the blizzard of unsold 1956 models. Final figures for May showed new car inventories at 800,000 units, down 70,000 from April. With June production scheduled for only 446,000 units, some 3% less than June 1955, automakers expect to cut inventories another 100,000 by the first of July. Led by Chevrolet, which has sold a whopping 822,729 cars and trucks in 1956's first five months, only 820 fewer than the 1955 record, many companies reported sharp sales spurts...
Point of Honor. In Tucson, Ariz., police looked for the man who hopped into Walter Prideaux's Chevrolet, robbed him of a gold wedding band, a $50 watch, $2 in cash, promised to leave the car at a specified parking space, explained before he drove off: "I'm no car thief...
...Reckoning. In Minneapolis, Kans., Ross Thompson, 76, smashed into a parked car and knocked it into another car, drove 130 feet farther down the street and crashed into a third car, stopped, walked back to survey the first scene of contact, returned and backed out into a fourth car, shifted into forward gear, struck his wife and bounced her off the hood, inflicting three fractures, careened into a brick building, was hospitalized with his wife for multiple bruises...
...denying that college for me was a joyride, but its transitory joys only overlaid its bitter reality. Having a car, for instance, provided comfort to, from, and during the battle of the sexes, but my young ladies, since I preferred ladies, surrendered very little, indeed. And the fact that it is a misdemeanor to keep a car in Cambridge adds little to the bliss of the academic life...