Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of Harrington's criminal record caused an uproar in Shawnee. A local printer donated his services to print up grand-jury petition forms, and overnight more than 350 indignant Shawneeans signed petitions to call a special grand jury (only 100 signatures are required...
This week, as Shawnee got ready to file its petition for a grand jury to investigate Sheriff Harrington's regime, the local county attorney started action to challenge the sheriff's right to hold office. He also asked Oklahoma Governor Raymond Gary to help clean up bootlegging and gambling in Shawnee, and the FBI began an investigation to see if Reporter Bradshaw's beating was a violation of federal civil rights laws. As a result of its belated expose, the News-Star had also learned a lesson: the campaign to clean up Shawnee should not have waited...
...that Alberto had to sit still for a while. While he did, Enzo Ferrari, who manufactured some of the fastest cars in competition, caught up with him and hired him as a driver. After that, there was no holding Alberto Ascari. Every year, in his Ferraris, he scored more Grand Prix points, and every year he sped closer to death. In The Netherlands Grand Prix in 1949, he lost a wheel while doing 120 m.p.h. Somehow, he survived the wreck. In 1953, at Monza, after winning the Grand Prix championship for the second year in a row, he spun...
...stage of the Grand Music Hall of Basel, Switzerland one day last week sat two strange contraptions. One resembled a telephone switchboard with a set of loudspeakers attached. The other looked like a small spinet but was connected to two loudspeakers and a lute-shaped soundbox. The gadgets were known as the "Mixturtrautonium" and the "Ondes Martenot." Both produce more or less musical tones electronically, and they were to be featured soloists in a concert for the delegates to the first International Congress of Electronic Music and Musique Concr...
...more fantastic than the men who uneasily controlled them. The Air Force's "Chuck" Yeager (TIME, April 18, 1949), first man to hurtle through the sound barrier (in Bell's X-I), makes an entrance in Bridgeman's book that is worthy of jet-age grand opera-and typical of Yeager. As Bridgeman started his first rocket flight in the Skyrocket, bright sunlight made it difficult to read the dials in the cockpit. Suddenly a shadow hovered over his face, and a relaxed voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying chase...