Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman Gibson, winner of the prestigious Medal for Merit for his services as civilian aide in the War Department in World War II. still has plenty of power over a boxer's future: he is president of National Boxing Enterprises, Inc. of Illinois (successor to the I.B.C.), which puts on TV's Wednesday-night fights. "I was picked up and handled like a murderer," complained Gibson after his arrest in Chicago. As for Jordan, he was taking the whole affair in stride. When newsmen finally caught up with the champ, he was hanging around with none other than...
...gladden the debut of Coach Dale Hall, Army flashed the power and precision of old, rolled up 560 yds. from scrimmage for a 44-8 victory over hapless Boston College, topping Navy's 24-8 victory over the same team the week before...
...Corvair's factory list price of $1,860 is only $196 below Chevy's cheapest model, the Biscayne. But the spread will grow when it comes to the buyer's choice of extras. The Corvair handles so easily that it needs no power brakes or power steering, and its automatic shift, at $135, is $50 less than on Chevy models. Cole expects that many Corvair buyers will not even want the automatic shift, will prefer the stick shift on the floor to get back the "feel of driving." Thus the Corvair, with the minimum extras needed, will...
...water pump and radiator, does away with overheating and freezing, needs no antifreeze. Because the engine is aft, and combines there with the transmission and drive gears, there is no transmission hump in the floor. Because the front is light, Chevy says the car is easy to steer without power steering, gets better traction and braking...
...scores of wooden mockups. He tried everything: front engine with front-wheel drive, front engine with rear-wheel drive, rear engine with front-wheel drive, but he always returned to rear engines with rear-wheel drive. By the spring of 1956, when Cole's team produced a prototype power plant and suspension, he disguised it with a German Porsche body shell. One of Cole's friends recalls the scene that day at the Chevy Engineering Center. "Ed jumped in the car as if his pants were on fire. The speed limit at the test center is 25 m.p.h...