Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...
...Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth...
...luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram. Pibul's favorite color is green, and he found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and the flashy Ford Thunderbird and Mercedes-Benz sports cars in which he liked to hot-rod it along Thailand's highways and byways. In the tinseled and temple-dotted capital of Bangkok, Westerners liked to dismiss Pibul as just another crooked politician. But he was much more than that...
...cast Eve Arden in a series based on Emily Kimbrough's autobiography, It Gives Me Great Pleasure. TV's most ambitious drama mill, Playhouse 90, reopens this month with Jack Palance and Fashion Model Suzy Parker in Barnaby Conrad's Death of Manolete, followed by Rod Serling's study of the Hungarian revolt, The Dark Side of the Earth, with Van Heflin, and Marcel Pagnol's Topaze, with Ernie Kovacs...
...Lump It. Last week, on NBC for Bristol-Myers (Ipana toothpaste), pint-sized (5 ft., 98 Ibs.) Kathryn Murray catapulted through a sketch as a theater usherette pantomiming a gypsy musical, and rode herd on a typical Party: a swirl of waltzers, a specialty spot by Dancers Rod Alexander and Bambi Lynn, an amateur ballroom-dancing contest between three couples aged five to eleven, and, in the closing moments, an appearance by tall, erect Arthur Murray, 62, in time to waltz his wife away...