Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing Driver Bob Wilder, 32, gunned his English-built Oldsmobile-Allard out of the short curve, tires screeching, and sped on toward the little hump-backed bridge. Driver Wilder, a veteran of sport-car racing, knew what to expect at the crest of the bridge: a brief, soaring pitch with all four wheels off the ground, then a jolt as the car settled to the roadway again-then a strong foot on the gas for the next hill. But Driver Wilder never made the hill. His Allard smacked down askew on the roadway, veered, skidded up a bank and turned...
Charles Moran, executive secretary of the S.C.C.A. and a veteran of France's famed Le Mans 24-hour race, spoke up for the disgruntled drivers. "It's the European view," said Moran, "that these accidents will happen occasionally. But at Le Mans, the spectators never trespass in a forbidden or dangerous area...
...Confucianists, 1.2% Buddhists, 4.6% Christians (mostly Presbyterians), and 92.6% are without any religious affiliation at all. But with the war came demands for the consolations of religion, and no chaplains to fill them. It was 1951 before a ROK chaplaincy corps was organized under the guidance of two veteran missionaries, Methodist Dr. William E. Shaw and Roman Catholic Monsignor George M. Carroll...
...night in 1947, a delegation from the Harvard Boots and Wings Club, an exclusive organization open only to veteran parachutists, was wending its way back to the Houses from Cronin's. Pausing in front of the Kirkland Master's residence, and apropos of nothing, the men began to render "Noel" with great spirit. Mason Hammond, the Master of Kirkland, came to his bedroom window and made it clear that the serenade was not welcome. Since that time, few months have passed without the evening concert being repeated, with a three-year turnover in the choir but always the same refrain...
Died. Chet Miller, 50, dean of U.S. racing-car drivers; at the Indianapolis Speedway. Good enough to hold the track's one-lap speed record (139.6 m.p.h.), Veteran Miller never won the annual 500-mile speedway classic, decided that this year's attempt would be his last. He climbed into his V-8 Novi Special for a fast practice spin, lost control, crashed into the barrier, became the speedway's 43rd victim...