Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked like a bad day for the big spin in "The Brickyard." Grey rain clouds scudded over Indianapolis; damp winds skittered across the infield as the Memorial Day 500-mile auto race got under way. But Wild Bill Vukovich, 36, the "Grape Picker" from Fresno, Calif., had no time to worry about weather. He kept his eyes on the track. A two-time winner in the 500, "Vuky" was hell-bent on pulling off an unprecedented three...
Chairman Butler flew into the fight like a bird into a badminton game. At the Fresno convention of the California Democratic Council, a group of 400 amateur clubs whose members are at odds with the party's state leaders, Butler urged all Democrats to "work with the regular organization." Up popped handsome Richard Graves,, defeated Democratic candidate for governor last year, who proceeded to insult Butler to his face while 1,000 delegates cheered. The party leadership, he snapped, "must earn its right to lead." Graves thereupon analyzed Democratic troubles. "We have stood in the long shadow of Roosevelt...
...Flint or Fresno who dreams of some day loading the wife and kids in the family sedan and steering a few weeks later across the big swinging bridge over the Panama Canal, prospects looked a little brighter last week. Rolling up its maps in Mexico City at the end of one of its occasional meetings, the directing committee of the Pan American Highway Congress released information showing that only 6% of the 3,200-mile Laredo-to-Panama stretch is still missing. Work is going ahead on two of the three main gaps, and Vice President Richard Nixon has called...
Saturation Point. In Fresno, Calif., ex-Convict Manuel Eurich, 35, was sentenced to from 1 to 14 years in prison despite his plea that he had written worthless checks only after getting drunk in a bar while sitting out a thunderstorm when he was on his way to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous...
Brass. In Fresno. Calif., suing John Davilla for divorce. Jennie Davilla charged that he beat her frequently, claimed it was a privilege that went with his Navy rank of chief petty officer...