Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record for 1,000 miles (at 172.8 m.p.h.) ; 3,000 miles (at 165 m.p.h.); for 24 hours (at 161.84 m.p.h.), among others. Last week old Ab Jenkins climbed behind the wheel again in a Class C stock car 24-hour endurance trial at Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Flats...
...hours. Despite a broken patch of track which caused the car to swerve each time around and cost him minutes, Ab got himself another world's record: 2.841 miles at an average speed of 118.37 m.p.h. Then Ab drove the 112 miles back to Salt Lake City without incident. Jenkins, onetime mayor of Salt Lake City, also claims to be the world's safest driver...
...door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration of Independence), blesses an oblivious salt with rum, while Captain Ambrose Page neatly vomits in his pocket. The time is 2 a.m. and things (including Page's coattails) are warming...
...matter is the fact that the people who worked the play up are all pretty talented. Anouilh created a fast-moving and well-confused story, making even his stock characters interesting--the butler wonderfully antique, the rich Messerschmann intriguingly reduced to eating nothing but noodles, "without butter and without salt." Fry, in translating and adapting Anouilh's orignal L'invitation au chateau, left the dramatic action intact but colored up the prose considerably, at the same time avoiding any over-fanciful flights of words. Only in the third act, when there is too much emphasis on the tired theme...
...Option. In Salt Lake City, charged with failure to provide for his family, Felix E. Salazar was sentenced to 18 months in jail after he told the judge: "If I have to go to work now, I would rather go to prison and get it over with. What I would really like is a good job where you don't have to work hard...