Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard medley relay team, composed of Hedberg, Emerson, and Mulvey, stands fair to place high if it can repeat the showing it made in the Eastern championships. The trio turned in a time of 2:53 fiat, but finished second as Yale won in record-breaking time...
...biggest fact about the Korean war is this: it was never inevitable, it was never inescapable. No fantastic fiat of history decreed that little South Korea-in the summer of 1950-would fatally tempt Communist aggressors as their easiest victim. No demonic destiny decreed that America had to be bled this way in order to keep South Korea free and to keep freedom itself self-respecting...
Today the Volkswagen is West Germany's biggest-selling auto, and it is vying with France's Renault and Italy's Fiat for first place in Continental Europe. At the reconstructed plant, 16,000 workers are now turning out 120,000 Volkswagen a year (about one out of every two German cars). Cheap ($1,095), economical (36 miles per gallon), and with a top speed of 70 m.p.h. from its aircooled four-cylinder engine, the Volkswagen is also beginning to edge into transatlantic markets. Volkswagen's total U.S. sales have already reached 1,200; it recently...
...when he was eleven, Paolo tried sculpture, turned out amazingly good busts of angelic children. But he soon tired of carving and went back to pen & ink drawings with single-minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...
Close the Eyes. There are lively descriptions of the early Vanderbilt Cup races, in 1904, 1905 and 1910, which were denounced from the pulpit but drew crowds like a magnet: "Louis Chevrolet wrapped his Fiat around a telegraph pole on Willis Avenue . . . Harold Stone, driving a Columbia, leapt the Meadowbrook bridge and shot into the mob, killing his mechanic and injuring a mixed bag of bystanders...