Word: plymouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madison Square Garden was sold out five days before the fight for the first time in history. In Room 1049 at tne Plymouth Hotel, Cassius Clay was in a happy mood. "The Garden is too small for me," he crowed. "Where are the big places? That's what I need. Maybe the Los Angeles Coliseum. I was up in Harlem today, arguing with 500 people on the corner. I get them to come down here and see Cassius in the Garden. Boxing people are paying their way in. They're wiping off the seats where the pigeons used...
...bumper the cars snarled around the circuit, hitting close to 150 m.p.h. on the straightaways, sliding boldly through the narrow turns. For some, the pace proved too fast. Clem Proctor's Pontiac hit an oil slick and leaped a 3½-ft.-high guardrail. Jim Paschal's Plymouth spun out of control, turned four somersaults and plunged over a steep embankment. Incredibly, neither driver was badly hurt. Streaking through Riverside's tricky S-curves in third gear at more than 100 m.p.h., Gurney grabbed the lead on the 43rd lap. Over the next 142 laps, until...
...made it to the U.S. embassy compound next door. In the graveled courtyard, Olympio found a parked Plymouth sedan belonging to the embassy, and crawled in. There, in the early morning sunlight, he was spotted huddled beneath the steering wheel by one of the mutineers. Crying "All right, you have me!", Olympio surrendered and, prodded by rifle butts, was hustled down the driveway, past a mango tree and through the green gate. There he balked. Sergeant Etienne Eyadema, commander of the rebel detachment, later declared: "He could not stay there. There would have been demonstrations. He would not move...
CHRYSLER CORP.: 1,201,195 649,200 Plymouth 647,352 313,200 (Valiant) - (127,900) Dodge 284,323 248,900 Chrysler (incl. Imperial) 156,458 132,100 DeSoto 118,062 Extinct
Next year, TIME recorded that "the doings of Walter P. Chrysler, already prodigious, have become fabulous." The ambitious automaker had launched Plymouth in July, De Soto in August, brought out Dodge and set out to build the world's largest skyscraper - all in one year. "Curiously, it was in a jail at year's end" that TIME found the Man of 1930: Mohandas Gandhi. In 193 2, TIME asked of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Will he make good in the White House? The country is only too ready to hope so." In 1934 it was F.D.R. again, "and only...