Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven had in common medium height (5 ft. 11 in. or less, to squeeze into the space capsule) and medium age (32 to 37-old enough to have the required experience in the air and engineering, young and fit enough to explore the unknown). Six sported crew cuts, four were their fathers' namesakes. Each was small-town-born, married, a father (one to four children), an active sportsman, a Protestant; each expressed an intimate love for the skies and an abiding faith in the heavens. Yet they were individualists...
Women drivers copped first place in two of the six classifications. Stunt Driver Patricia Jones drove her Dodge Coronet to victory in the Low Medium-Price Class; Hollywood Secretary Mary Hauser zipped her Chevrolet Biscayne into top honors in the Low-Price, 6-Cylinder Class. Only a broken tie rod and penalty for lost time while she repaired it kept Restaurant Owner Mary Davis of Hollywood, in a Plymouth Belvedere, from winning first place in a third class. (She placed second.) In 13 individual races, in which men and women raced against each other and drove identical makes and models...
...Medium-Price: Dodge Coronet, 21.7454 m-p-g-; Dodge Coronet, 21.0164 m.p.g.; Chrysler Windsor, 19.6454 m.p.g...
...squarely on the ocean beach. The fortification did not do much good: the 20,000 spring-vacationing collegians who began taking over the town two weekends ago behaved in the same sunstruck, beer-propelled way as have their predecessors for the last 20 years. That is, they grilled themselves medium-rare all day, beach-boozed all night, and blew the foam off the early hours by decanting sand sharks and alligators into local swimming pools...
...there is little doubt that the big car's medium-priced lines will be hard hit by the approaching battle of the compact cars. Their sales, which were 37% of all sales only four years ago, last week were down to 25%-and still slipping. Most experts expect the new compact cars to occupy the spot once held by the Ford, Chevy and Plymouth before they got big enough to push out the medium-priced cars...