Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown to such proportions that the government has all but given up hope of keeping Mexico's treasures at home. Some officials are collectors themselves-and not above turning a fast peso on a good piece. They make smuggling ridiculously easy. Reaching the border with a station wagon full of pre-Columbian art, ex-Jockey and Art-Quiz Whiz Billy Pearson was "prepared to start throwing money around." The customs man demanded only food. "For a case of chilis," wrote Pearson in his autobiography, "I got through the border...
They have more than that to look at, including some of the most exciting new faces-and figures-that U.S. show business has produced in many a year. James Arness (Gunsmoke), Ward Bond (Wagon Train), Richard Boone (Have Gun), Hugh O'Brian (Wyatt Earp), James Garner (Maverick), Chuck Connors (Rifleman), Dale Robertson (Wells Fargo), Clint Walker (Cheyenne)-one day these he-manly specimens were just so many sport coats on Hollywood's infinite rack. The next, they were TV's own beef trust. Their teeth were glittering, their biceps bulging, their pistols blazing right there...
Assured of his popularity, Kassem toured in his yellow station wagon, waving to the cheering crowds. They were in a holiday patriotic mood, celebrating a nationalism not subservient to Egypt. The impulse came naturally to Iraqis, but Communist cheerleaders organized their cries for them. Nasser's United Arab Republic had fomented the Mosul rebellion, cried Kassem, ordering the expulsion of nine Egyptian diplomats. "The curtain is raised," trumpeted Baghdad's daily Al Thawra. "Abdel Nasser is revealed as the great plotter, enemy, dictator, and shedder of blood. Those who proclaim pan-Arabism and raise Abdel Nasser...
...penniless and alone, when he arrived in 1906 from Russia. A gnome of a man, Charles Fraiman put a pack on his back and peddled old clothes from door to door in the outskirts of Philadelphia, until he had enough money to buy a horse and wagon and go into the junk business. He used to say he made $1.50 a day-50? for his horse, 50? for himself, and 50? for his savings...
...Ford decides to continue producing the standard Edsel. The small Edsel or its counterpart could take the place of cheaper Ford six-cylinder cars, fill the gap between Ford's small car and its more expensive models, e.g., the Fairlane. In 1961 Ford may add a station wagon to its scheduled small...