Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago TIME sized up the line-up for the year's big auto racing, came to the conclusion that Italy's Maserati was the car most likely to sweep the grand prizes, foresaw more loving cups for World Champion Driver Juan Manuel Fangio and the rest of the Maserati team. The conclusion was borne out at last week's Sebring, Fla. Grand Prix test, as Winner Fangio was quick to note. See SPORT, Fireworks for Fangio...
Indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington last week: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, boss of the teamsters' powerful Central Conference, with headquarters in Detroit, and challenger to I.B.T. President Dave Beck. The charges, all based on Hoffa's offer of $18,000 and payment of $3,000 for documents filched from the McClellan committee files (TIME, March 25): 1) bribery, with a possible penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of three times the bribe total; 2) conspiracy, five years and $10,000; 3) obstruction...
...since 1950, just before grand juries discovered that some of Bradley's stars were students not only of such esoteric subjects as music appreciation and square dancing but also point-shaving for gamblers, had Bradley sent a team east from Peoria to try its luck in the N.I.T. Determined to bring back Bradley's basketball pride, the team had started off with a Garden scoring record by trouncing Xavier 116-81, toying with Temple 94-66 to reach the final...
...Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold watched the operation and sped up plans intended to bring big power users into accord with Egypt for the grand reopening soon...
Said efforts, he thought, should be rewarded. Only he wasn't sure. "I'm not that sinister or impecunious," he said and quickly restored our faith in the Grand Old Party. But he went on to say that he hadn't been able to achieve a "rapport on a factual basis." We felt sorry about this, but no one else seemed to, and one motion was made to censure the gentlemen for embarassment. Of what we don't know; certainly not of riches...