Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boosts while the economy is drooping, retail prices might well decline far enough to stir plenty of consumer interest. In Manhattan, where the end of "Fair Trade" pricing on appliances brought a hot price-cutting war, housewives showed a frantic, elbowing eagerness to spend money for toasters, irons, rotisseries, clock radios...
...Chance health-and-beauty farm last week were brusquely shooed away by grim-faced guards who sprang from behind cactus clumps. A total of 21 armed men-six Secret Service agents, six members of the Arizona highway patrol and nine Maricopa County sheriffs deputies-guarded the place around the clock, seven men to each eight-hour shift...
...Kiss Goodbye. The bright yellow bus, with 46 pupils aboard, was bound for the elementary and high schools in nearby Prestonsburg. There was nothing unusual about the morning beyond cloudy skies, or about the bus and its journey. At about 7 o'clock Driver Jack Derossett, 27, started his usual route through the 75-family coal-mining town of Cow Creek, picked up his regular riders on schedule. Seconds before he was due, for example, James Goble, 12, John, 11, and Anna Laura, 9, the three children of Cow Creek Storekeeper James B. Goble, scooped up their books, kissed...
Though he hated to get up early enough for his 9 o'clock classes ("a bloody nuisance"), McNair sailed through his courses with astonishing ease. He has come out with top marks in French literature, made a "very satisfactory" record in all his other subjects. He became senior debater of the debating team ("You should see the other teams turn green when he starts talking," says one classmate), last week was organizing a meeting to improve student-professor relations. His classmates' "sir" has long since given way to just plain "John...
...turn. And when the pack contains men like Hungary's crack Istvan Rozsavolgyi, holder of three world records for outdoor middle-distance running, the problem is even more complicated. For while Ron runs to win and only as fast as he has to, Rozsy runs against the clock. He knows from wind-broken experience that setting a new record for the indoor mile may be the only way to defeat The Delany...