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Election day was cold and drizzly in the Saar's smoky coal hills, but no sooner had its coal miners, steelworkers and farmers gone to morning Mass than 93% of them began to flock to the polling booths. Ostensibly, they had only to decide whether Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or one of the opposition parties would control the 50-man Landtag. Actually, they were being asked to choose between 1) France's plan to "Europeanize" the Saar by making it an independent but pro-French unit within the Schuman Plan...
...racing is a slam-bang sport with its own special sound effects-screeching tires, crumpling fenders and ten-car smashups. It requires nerve and verve for a driver to compete with any success. Tops in this careening career is a slim, wiry young (28) man named Julius Timothy Flock of Hapeville, Ga. A onetime auto salesman, "Tim" Flock, who comes from a family of racing drivers, discovered six years ago that racing a car was more profitable than selling one. His estimated income this season...
...Flock was one of the starters this week at West Palm Beach in the final race of the year, sponsored by NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). Flock was involved in a neck & neck race with Herb Thomas, defending national champion, for the 1952 title...
Ever since last January, when Flock set a Palm Beach Speedway record of 64.89 m.p.h., he and Thomas had dueled it out at tracks all over the U.S. in NASCAR's grand circuit. The NASCAR rules are rigid, a cut above the fly-by-night promotions involving jalopies with wild-eyed teen-agers at the wheels. All cars must be 1949 makes or newer. They must be strictly stock, with no special tires, no extra-heavy springing and no "souping up" of engines. Safety rules are rigidly enforced. Headlights are taped to prevent flying glass, and the drivers must...
Cambridge Fire Chief John F. Collins yesterday charged freshmen with stealing equipment from a truck in the Yard and hinted that undergraduates have been turning in a flock of false alarms in the past few weeks...