Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigations of juvenile delinquency, violence and sex in motion pictures, pornography, black-market babies and Dixon-Yates, Kefauver went prospecting for publicity. He became one of the first Democrats to speak out squarely against Dwight Eisenhower ("Eisenhower is a disappointing President"). Whereas most prospective presidential candidates make one trip abroad, Kefauver made three, covering Europe, the Middle East and Asia. And when the Soviet Union relaxed its restrictions against U.S. travelers. Kefauver was among the first to pop over to Moscow...
...east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly and efficiently unloaded, their cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French, less security-minded than the British, let it be known that a fleet of eight transports, with a capacity of 10,000 troops per trip, had been mobilized in Marseille and Algerian ports, while a task force of one cruiser and six destroyers was already at sea, escorting troop convoys from the Algerian port of Sidi-Ferruch to Cyprus...
...contrast to the precarious ride of the other boats, Miss Pepsi displaces water like a Sunday speedboat, is kicked along by two 1,500-h.p. Allison aircraft engines, and throws a rough wake that is awesome indeed. "Riding behind her," says one driver, "is like a trip behind the Queen Mary." To make matters worse, Miss Pepsi's driver, Chuck Thompson, has the quaint habit of taking her for a spin ten minutes before the starting gun, a tactic that is sure to roil the course...
...minute of fuel left. His nice calculations earned him the Bendix Trophy and a new Bendix record: 666.661 m.p.h. In second place, with 656.250 m.p.h. : Captain Robert A. Madden, a Korean veteran who spent 15 months as a PW. Although adverse winds edged them out of a supersonic trip, all six contestants, all flying North American F-100Cs, cracked the record of 616.208 m.p.h. set two years ago by Captain Edward Kenny...
...romantically dashing foreign correspondent who lets nothing-sometimes not even the facts-get in the way of a good story. A World War II Royal Navy flyer and jet test pilot, Stevenson has been forced out of Yugoslavia, denounced by the Peking radio for his stories after a trip through Red China, and scolded by the Canadian government for breaking a story on Canada's highly secret "flying saucer"-a saucer-shaped aircraft expected to fly 1,500 m.p.h. In Korea, where he won the Canadian Press Board Award for foreign correspondence, he was lost for four days behind...