Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skidding Lancia. The second day's docket called for two laps, from Oaxaca over lofty, roller-coaster roads to Puebla (252.9 miles), then a short (79.5 miles), nightmare stretch girdling a volcano at a height of nearly two miles and then plunging in murderous curves down to Mexico City. Again the Lancias led the pack, and Italy's "King of the Mountains," Piero Taruff, relishing his favorite sort of terrain, hung up lap records of 88 m.p.h. on the long leg, 102.8 m.p.h. on the treacherous short one. Late that night, in a hospital far back...
...device. In Gary, Ind., traffic deaths have been cut from 39 by mid-November in 1952 to 17 this year -and police give radar meters full credit. "It's cut down the deaths tremendously," reported Colonel T. B. Birdson, Mississippi's Commissioner of Public Safety. "On the stretch between Clarksdale and the Tennessee state line, it's resulted in a 70% reduction of the death rate...
...Gulch," the greatest concentration of inert gas in the world, now casts a neon glow for 30 miles into the desert. Along Highway 91, on which the Californians stampede into Vegas in their Cadillacs at the rate of 20,000 each weekend, lies the Strip, a celebrated three-mile stretch of real estate bounded by seven enormous, luxury hotels. The Strip represents a capital investment of $40 million, and is incorporated (in order to escape municipal taxes) as two townships. Their names: Paradise A and Paradise...
...West Berlin one night last week, an unsuspecting German was sauntering near a stretch of barbed wire that marked the barrier between the free and the Red sectors of the city. Suddenly two ragged, haggard and grim-faced young men popped out of nowhere, poked a pistol against the German stroller's chest. One of them rasped: "Take us to the American military police. If you hand us over to the Russians, we shoot you." The German hastily complied. Not far away a third young man, also armed, accosted a German waiting for an El train and had himself...
Fred M. Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, was paroled from the federal pen in Terre Haute, Ind. after serving six months of a 15-month stretch for evading income taxes...