Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average U.S. car-owner has a definite and jaundiced image of a hot-rod: a souped-up old jalopy driven by some wild-eyed youngster, usually seen bulling through traffic, fenders flapping and exhaust stacks rumbling. But last week, on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, a superior sort of hot-rod was in evidence: handsome, beautifully tuned machines built by safety-conscious young men who could talk intelligent shop with any engineer in Detroit...
...occasion was the Fifth Annual National Hot-Rod Time Trials, and some 250 drivers from 19 states were entered...
Warden, son of a Chicago Tribune reporter, a painstaking lesson in the proper use of a spinning rod, and late in the week he fished St. Louis Creek for an hour and a half, catching a twelve-inch rainbow on his first cast. But fly-casting was not what the doctor ordered for the President's aching right elbow, which he had bone-bruised in Washington and aggravated by his daily golf games in Denver...
Into the Field. The man behind Operation Snoop is Commissioner of Internal Revenue T. (for Thomas) Coleman Andrews, 54, a self-styled "Byrd Democrat." Andrews is a jovial, distinguished-looking Virginian with a fine command of Elizabethan English and an enthusiasm for rod & gun. He inherited an IRS which was left a shambles by the tax scandals of the Truman Administration. In seven months he has rejuvenated morale and rebuilt his staff with complete disdain for political recommendations. Principal reorganization: cutting the number of IRS regional offices from 17 to nine, at the same time transferring large chunks of responsibility...
...long tradition. Even after being booted into the pool, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi never learned to be decisive. Ascending the throne in 1941, Mohammed Reza quickly indicated that he preferred affairs of the heart to affairs of state. In his early days, he kept a fast plane, a hot-rod Cadillac and a French mistress; once he made a big and unsuccessful pitch for Rita Hayworth...