Word: motorcyclists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rain and pre-holiday traffic on Wednesday resulted in three accidents which hospitalized a Harvard motorcyclist and two Radcliffe bicyclists...
...Dead." One motorcyclist roared down Main Street with a wine-swilling companion on his shoulders; another stood on the saddle of his speeding motorcycle and drained a bottle. Others spaced beer cans along the street, wove in and out on their cycles in an impromptu slalom race; soon the steeliest of the girls stood beside the cans as markers. An Angels Camp policeman darted into the street to pick up the beer cans, retreated amid hoots and catcalls when a cyclist buzzed him. Other gangs organized drag races, reached 50 m.p.h. from standing starts. Some settled for simple horseplay...
EVERY Wednesday morning, a motorcyclist in green uniform speeds from Rio's Catete Palace to Galeão Airport to meet the plane that brings TIME'S Latin American edition from our Havana printers. At the airport, customs officers break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...
...Autobahn outside Munich, German Motorcyclist Wilhelm Noll set two new unofficial world records for motor cycle with sidecar, with his super-streamlined, three-wheeled B.M.W. (Bayerische Motoren Werke) bike (see cut). From a flying start, Noll hit speeds of 282 kilometers (175 m.p.h.) over a measured kilometer, and 177 m.p.h. over a mile...
Champ. In Maastricht, The Netherlands, Dutch Motorcyclist Priem Rozen-berg, 1952 winner of a trophy as best all-round Dutch motorcyclist, five-time member of the Dutch six-day motorcycle team, three-time winner of the Monaco motorcycle trophy, revealed that he had never earned a cyclist's license, finally took his driver's test and failed when he forgot to look back before turning left...