Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, veteran Racing Driver Ab Jenkins warmed up his old Mormon Meteor, which has carried him to world records at every distance from 50 kilometers (at 172.92 m.p.h.) to 1,000 miles (at 172.8 m.p.h.), for a last fling at some new records. On the twelfth lap around the twelve-mile course, hitting 200 m.p.h., the Meteor skidded and mowed down a line of wooden markers before Jenkins could straighten out. As the car began to heat up and smoke, because of a punctured radiator hose line, Jenkins braked to a stop and jumped...
...Gordon Rowse, 12, of Ogden, Utah, the fifth annual national marble tournament, over Henry Patino, 12 (and 1,500,000 other youngsters), 7-3, 0-7, 7-1; at Albuquerque, N.Mex...
Parting Shot. This week, after 17 years on the FRB, Marriner Eccles was ready to hand in his resignation. He wanted to go back to run his family's Utah banks, sugar factories and lumber mills. As befits a departing prophet, Marriner Eccles left behind a book of revelations-his autobiography (Beckoning Frontiers; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, $5), published this week. His most interesting revelation concerned his own demotion. Never able to get Truman to tell him why he was moved out of the FRB chair, Eccles thinks it was because he (Eccles) wanted to clip the power...
...UTAH CLUB...
Warwick C. Lamoreaux LL.B. '38, 422 Utah Oil Bldg., Salt Lake City...