Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, the unions try to observe the old fraternal forms. Members still call one another "brother" and "sister" -but mostly in formal correspondence, not in face-to-face conversation. The interior walls of many a meeting hall in many a fancy local headquarters are of unadorned cinder blocks to recall unionism's hard-knocks days; chances are that more money has been put into the locals' recreation rooms, with air conditioning, paneled walls, billiard and ping-pong tables and bars (the staple still is beer...
...fans were turning out to watch a road race from Paris to Madrid. In the U.S. a year later, a Dearborn, Mich., farmer's son was advertising his Ford as "the fastest car in the world"-and proving it by clocking 91.37 m.p.h. on the cinder-covered ice of Lake St. Clair. And it was not long before an enchanted U.S. public was thrilling to the exploits of a whole new set of heroes-Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, and the mysterious "Baron von Rickenbacher*-helmeted hotspurs who risked life and limb in the glorious pursuit of speed...
...newest monument to the New Harvard, the Roy E. Larsen Hall at the Ed School, received its first callers yesterday. A group of old Cambridge ladies, a priest, and a few merely curious toured its nine floors of light-controlled, heat-regulated bare cinder block halls and unfurnished beige rooms. The building, they decided, backed soul...
...gave the trackmen a perfect record on the outdoor season and the last cinder defeat suffered a Harvard squad--a 76-73 loss to the cadets last spring...
...Soldiers' Field at about 3 p.m. today, the track team begins its semi-annual, to-day demonstration of supremacy among Boston area cinder squads...