Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form of violence for its own sake. In Los Angeles last week, Gene Klossmer, 87, was treating Mrs. Edith Sanford, 70, to a ride along the street in his slow (4 m.p.h.), three-wheel electric cart, when two teen-agers in a 1951 sedan drove up behind him, gleefully pushed the unsteady cart along until it overturned. The elderly riders suffered broken bones and numerous cuts. The two youths drove on-laughing-and showed no signs of remorse when they were arrested later. "It's not against the law to push a cart, is it?" one asked, grinning...
...Actually, 5 ft. 5½ in. * Jimmy is still trying. The latest issue of the magazine International Teamster announces a big push for membership in DRIVE (a lobbying subsidiary of the union), offers an aromatic inducement. New members will receive free "a handsome, goldplated, perfume-filled spray atomizer, with choice of one or two highly desired perfumes, comparable to Chanel...
...more homers to set a new record. With a month to go, the Yankees seem certain to better the major league mark of 221 home runs. CJ The Los Angeles Angels and Baltimore Orioles sent six home runs sailing out of the Angels' Wrigley Field, to push the season's total in the West Coast bandbox to 204. Previous American League record for an individual ball park was 200. set at Detroit's Briggs Stadium in 1959. Next target for the American Leaguers: the major league record of 219 set at Cincinnati's Crosley Field...
...Seiberling clan and Toledo Industrialist Edward Lamb, who lost an all-out proxy war in 1956 but now holds five seats on the isman board. The move, crowed Lamb, has "my enthusiastic support." Outspoken Harry Schrank, respected by competitors for his gift for spotting industry trends, plans to push diversification in chemicals and plastics...
...fared worse than most planemakers in the switch away from aircraft; last year its sales fell 27% to $242 million. Emmert, who began as a production-line worker at Seattle's Boeing plant and became executive vice president of Ford of Canada at 34, plans to push Roe's recent diversification into vending machines and aluminum boats...