Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardest campaigner of all was Pibulsonggram himself. An ardent admirer of U.S. political methods, the 59-year-old Premier zipped about the country in his green Thunderbird, handing out boxes of "Pibul matches" and replicas of his personal Buddha charm. Since Pibul's countrymen reckon that any man who has survived one kidnaping, two attempted assassinations by snooting and one by poisoning must have supernatural luck, the charm went over...
...will use more lightweight aluminum and magnesium, will thus get no heavier. The car weight per horsepower, which fell from 33 Ibs. to 15 Ibs. between 1946 and 1957, will hit a low of 12 Ibs. in '61. Since this "is the range of the present Corvette and Thunderbird sports cars, the average car of 1961 may perform as well as today's sports...
Meanwhile, down in the tropics, Mike Souchak was praying-in the 40-foot putt on the 18th green which clicked the $15,000 Thunderbird Invitational Golf Tournament into a three...
...Eaton, 65, son of a founder, who moved up to board chairman. Born in New Jersey and educated in the Middletown, N.Y. public schools, Bengert graduated from Columbia University in 1922, soon afterward joined Norwich as a research chemist, moved steadily up. Chemist Bengert's hobbies: driving a Thunderbird, working in the Boy Scouts and American Legion...
...tribesman found lying in the bush near the Yirrkala Methodist Mission, 400 miles east of Darwin in North Australia's desolate Arnhem Land, was paralyzed in the arms and legs and could scarcely breathe. Suspecting polio, the missionaries radioed for an air ambulance, and soon a 20th century thunderbird flew in to take Lya Wulumu (nicknamed Charlie), 19, from his Stone Age hunting grounds to Darwin Hospital. There four white doctors went to work...