Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory in New York City, a Democratic stronghold. Researchers of Pulse, Inc. last week reported that the Republican Convention had average New York City ratings of 43% a night compared with only 32% for the Democratic Convention. Pulse suggested three explanations for the flop: 1) a long heat wave that kept people out of doors, 2) baseball competition, 3) the fact that the Republican Convention came first...
...cheerers were silent with dismay when the first heat ended. Soon after Miss Great Lakes II conked out for good with a cracked gear box, Slo-mo IV lost a propeller and also dropped out. On the sixth 3-mile lap, Slo-mo V Driver Lou Fageol knew his boat was a goner: water spewing ominously from the exhaust meant that a cylinder had blown. Detroit's Miss Pepsi won the heat at a speed of 101.0242 m.p.h. in the fastest boat race of all time...
...flash of brilliant orange flame. A Coast Guardsman dived in and rescued her driver, "Wild Bill" Cantrell, who was severely burned. Then Miss Pepsi, by now the hot favorite and in a slim lead, went dead in the water with a hopelessly broken gear box. Dollar finished the second heat all by himself...
...final test he had to beat only Los Angeles' super-streamlined Hurricane IV, whose engine had not been started in time to begin the second heat. As the two boats churned around the course, Hurricane IV's engine balked again and quit. In the face of such universal bad luck, Stanley Dollar carefully crept (heat speed: 84.35 m.p.h.) through the last seven laps alone, prayerfully "counted every lap." If Slo-mo IV had fallen out, Miss Pepsi would have been the winner by default. But Dollar's hydroplane held up: the surviving boat won the Gold...
...white hair and Santa Claus eyes, Bi Shively has won "scores" of trots and paces. But he had never managed to win the richest harness race of all-the Hambletonian classic, which determines the top three-year-old U.S. trotter. In 1947 he copped the Hambletonian's first heat, but he failed to repeat and take...