Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cripple. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney was the first to object, protested that Knowland's plan "would amount to indefinite postponement, putting it on ice and avoiding meeting the issue head on." Answered Knowland: "I do not subscribe to the intimation . . . that we are a body of intimidated men." Knowland reminded Monroney that the Democratic Party had never censured McCarthy, though it controlled the Senate, when McCarthy was "very powerful." Said Knowland: ". . . Now that perhaps he has been a little crippled, it can do what it was not willing to do then." Shot back Monroney: ". . . If he is crippled...
...laps at Nürburgring, Gonzalez hung on grimly; then he gave up. Fangio and the Silver Arrow were too good. Averaging nearly 83 m.p.h. on the tricky course, Fangio finished first in 3:45:45.8. In second place, in Gonzalez Ferrari: England's Mike Hawthorn. Said Gonzalez with eloquent Latin dejection: "The Mercedes went by me like it was jet-propelled. Poof, poof, poof...
...Vancouver, B.C., at the fifth British Empire Games, the highly favored Aussies got off to a slow start. Trinidad's Mike Agostini (a student at Pennsylvania's Villanova College) whipped Australia's Hector Hogan (co-world-record holder) in the 100-yd. dash, tying the Games record with a 0:9.6 sprint...
...Mike and Buff's Mailbag (Thurs. 3:45 p.m., CBS). Eloise McElhone on husbands and wives at parties...
...Silverstone, England, Argentina's Froilan Gonzales pushed his Italian Ferrari into an early lead, raced for 270 miles around a twisting, rain-soaked course to win the British Grand Prix with an average speed of 89.69 m.p.h. In second place in another Ferrari was England's Mike Hawthrone, who clocked 89.10 m.p.h. In fourth place in a Mercedes-Benz came Argentine Star Juan Manuel Fangio, leading driver of the year, Gonzales' onetime mentor and now his archrival...