Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something for Everyone. Last week, through lands where noble lords once rode to hounds, hundreds of tourists scuttled about in buses and cars, munched sandwiches on rolling lawns, and frolicked on ponds in water scooters and sailboats. They shuffled through halls that once knew royalty, saw Queen Victoria's State Bedroom, gaped at Rembrandts, Van Dycks and Reynoldses, and examined such items as the saltcellars from Louis XV's wedding table...
Montana's Jack Westrope had what race-track people call "early foot." He was only twelve years old in 1930 when he rode his first winner on a bush-league track in Lemon, S. Dak. Just three years later the wiry little jock won his first race on a major track, and he went right on to boot home 300 more winners before that racing season ran out-the first of the modern riders to break past the 300 winners mark...
Good news also came from Washington. The rail relief bill (TIME, May 5) rode through the Senate, and a similar bill unanimously passed the House Commerce Committee. Both bills 1) provide for the U.S. to guarantee private loans to the rails (the Senate set a $700 million limit, but the House set no ceiling), 2) give greater power to the Interstate Commerce Commission to reduce service on money-losing routes. 3) tighten up on truckers now exempt from ICC rate regulations. Since chances seemed good that a relief bill would become law within a month, almost all major rail stocks...
...along De Gaulle's hour-long route from the airport to the city of Algiers, thousands of Algerian French, urged on by cheerleaders, dutifully shouted "Vive De Gaulle!" But their loudest cheers were raised for Jacques Soustelle, right-wing firebrand, onetime Governor General of Algeria, who also rode in the procession. At De Gaulle's first stop in Algiers-to lay a cross of Lorraine wreath at the foot of the city's World War I memorial-beefy Jacques Soustelle, grinning with delighted embarrassment, was obliged to gesture his admirers to silence before De Gaulle could capture...
There was, as a matter of fact, just this much more: Indiana's young (29), clean-jawed Pat O'Connor rode right up the stern of another racer, could not keep his Sumar Special from flipping over. No stranger to the Brickyard, Irish Pat O'Connor had racked up some 2,000 miles there in four other 500s. But experience could not save him. He suffered a fractured skull, died in flaming wreckage. The first lap was not yet finished and the 42nd Indy 500 had scored the race's 48th fatality. Elisian, whose harebrained driving...