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...With a muffler round my throat, shielding myself with the palm of my hand, I call out in the courtyard: "What millennium are we celebrating here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pasternak's Retreat | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...West Palm Beach, Fla., aging (49) Glamour Boy Porfirio Rubirosa, a sometime auto racer, was caught by police with his Ferrari down, charged with speeding, making a wrong turn and driving with an ear-ruffling muffler, haled to headquarters, where he paid a $25 fine. Huffed Rubi: "I was only trying to reach the bank in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

False Alarm. In Wethersfield, Conn., William H. Coney was fined $6 for having a noisy muffler, despite his protest that it kept him from falling asleep while driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Couple Three is a doomed duo: a used-car salesman (Tony Randall) in urgent need of a muffler on the mouth, and a girl (Sheree North) who looks as though five or six years of marriage have put 100,000 miles on her. The husband talks big, earns small, and drinks to forget the discrepancy. He dreams of the killing he will make some day, and never notices that he is murdering his wife by inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...their doorways. A group trailed a town girl; while one yelled obscenities, the rest of the pack twirled waist chains menacingly to discourage interference. Three of Angels Camp's four bars shut down; merchants decided to close early. Then came action. Flashing down the Main Street hill with muffler throbbing, a long-haired youngster wheeled artfully through a knot of idlers, snatched a can of beer on the fly. Hundreds of daredevils kicked their starters, ready to meet his challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Wild Ones | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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