Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard-running Harold Stassen, who started his race for the 1948 nomination a full year ahead of his rivals, is no man to let the grass grow up under his feet. In a radio interview on Mutual's Meet The Press program last week, the University of Pennsylvania's President Stassen was off to an even longer head start in the 1952 campaign...
With unlimited substitutions, says Tennessee's Coach Bob Neyland, the game has become a "rat race." It is now possible for football specialists to leave college without ever having made a tackle, recovered an enemy fumble, or intercepted a pass. How do you pick All-Americas from such half-players? The best argument for free substitutions was that it gave more kids a chance to get into the game, and earn their letter...
...first, the roads were good. Domingo purred along at a comfortable 70 m.p.h. Before reaching Caracas - about 6,000 miles away - the field had to grind up the mighty Andes, race across Bolivia's lofty Altiplano (plateau), span desert land, plunge through an equatorial jungle. For the next 18 days, nobody heard much about the fat undertaker...
...Battered Chevie. Only 300 miles from Caracas, Oscar's red Ford plunged down an embankment. When Juan came along, he stopped to help his brother get back on the road. It took so long that it cost him his chance of winning the race; besides, his own car was limping and had to be towed, thus violating one of the rules. One day last week, with 100,000 citizens of Caracas anxiously waiting at the finish line of the Gran Premio, a battered, fenderless Chevie coupe rolled down the Avenida San Martin. Out stepped Domingo Marim...
There are no figures, no case studies to demonstrate the value of the Fellowships to journalism. There is the list of study programs undertaken by men who are now editors and bureau chiefs and editorial writers--studies in American history, race relations, labor, international affairs, science, social relations. There is the theory that a man who can get away from the daily grind of the desk for a year to read, discuss, and explore his specialty should be a better-prepared reporter the next time he covers a strike or an election or a race riot. There is the fact...