Word: flints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This one I can't pass up. TIME, Nov. 12, says, "Estes Kefauver, by staff count, shook the hands of 5,595 auto workers in one hour at a Flint, Mich, factory gate." By comparison, our Multigraph running top speed at 6,300 impressions per hour goes Bang! Bang...
Even in the last week, Estes, by staff count, shook the hands of 5,595 auto workers in one hour at a Flint, Mich, fac tory gate. By election eve he was so fagged out that in introducing his family to a national TV audience he called the dog by his daughter's name, Diane. Yet at 2:30 a.m. he was winging southward for some unprecedented Election Day campaigning in Miami. "It's absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept...
...draft, a stepped-up attack on Nixon and a crackling criticism of the Eisenhower foreign policy. And as he whistle-stopped through Michigan and Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard. In Michigan, in heavily industrial (and heavily unionized) Flint, nobody seemed to care much. Some 3,500 turned out to hear him call Nixon "shifty," "rash" and "inexperienced," a "man of many masks." (Tom Dewey had drawn 5,000 the night before.) The crowd in the one-third empty auditorium responded politely: although the words were harsh, Stevenson's manner...
Short Cut. In Flint, Mich., asked by police why he drove past highway barricades, sloshed his '49 Ford through 300 ft. of freshly laid concrete pavement, Gordon Yelland explained: "I was in a hurry to get home...
...amateurs recognized the importance of their find. The spearhead was a partially fluted "Clovis point"-so called because the first such flint specimen was found near Clovis, N. Mex. Clovis points have always been considered older than the fully fluted Folsom points, but no one was sure just how old they are. Commonest guess was 15,000 years. But the discovery of a Clovis point in a campfire hearth containing charcoal made it possible to date the Clovis culture by carbon...