Word: sportsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sports cars were for the few; mass production for millions meant a touring car and later a closed car, in which the whole family could ride for thousands of miles in comfort. Sports-car fans scornfully dubbed such cars "jelly molds." Even non-sportsmen have more recently viewed them with alarm. Complained the Automobile Safety Association's President Arthur Stevens: the U.S. driver is "submerged down behind a chromium-draped engine hood, wide, slush-holding fenders, and a sloping, glass, mud-gathering shelf called a windshield, that at times even a Mixmaster couldn't clean." The American Automobile...
...conquerors. The U.S. Army intends to hang on to Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
...highway runs through some of North America's most striking scenery, and some of its best fish and game country. It is drawing a steadily increasing stream of tourists and sportsmen to northern Canada and Alaska. It has also opened up a new avenue for prospectors, giving them access to a new mineral-rich area scarcely tapped before. In the last five years, new deposits of silver, lead, gold, zinc, copper, asbestos, tungsten, molybdenum and manganese have been found in paying quantities near the highway...
John Hart, one of the College's most esoteric sportsmen, has left his single scull rowing, and will almost certainly lead Harvard's cross country skiing--that is, until he has to start training for the Wellesley bicycle race...
Though the Mexican attitude toward bloodshed and danger is traditionally stoic, the deaths of two well-known Mexican sportsmen in the first two days of the race brought some reactions of horror and indignation. A government official publicly branded the race "an imitation of North American customs not suited to Mexican characteristics." The press went off on a crusade. Mexico City's El Universal declared that permitting such dangerous shenanigans was a "crime...