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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illuminated the interior of the car - the bewildered face of the General, the chauffeur's terrified eyes . . . [The] chauffeur was reaching for his automatic, so I hit him across the head with my kosh [blackjack] . . . and George . . . dumped him on the road. I jumped in behind the steering-wheel, and . . . saw Paddy and Manoli dragging the General out of the opposite door. The old man was struggling with fury . . . shouting every curse under the sun . . . [We bundled] him into the back seat [and he] kept imploring, 'Where is my hat? Where...
...neither just nor merciful, we can hardly call it Christian." Take Martin Luther: "My detestation of that man grows. This spiritual father of Adolf Hitler says that the state can do no wrong. 'It is God that hangs and beheads men and breaks them on the wheel.' Has any doctrine caused more human misery than this...
Camouflage for Fear. The Winton yarn is only one of the curious gleanings that California Auto Bug M. M. (Wheels in His Head) Musselman has picked up in his lively retrace of U.S. automobile history, from linen-duster days to the present. He records all the major milestones, from the first plans drawn by George Selden of Rochester (1877), the first model of the Duryea brothers (1893), the water-cooled engine (1895), the steering wheel (1900), the windshield (1905), the left-hand drive (1909), the enclosed body (1911), the electric self-starter (1912), right down to such latter-day innovations...
...second semifinal, the crowd got the thrills it came for. Tearing along at 50 m.p.h., one car lost a rear wheel, dragged 100 yards on its axle before it stopped. The crash broke the fuel tank, spewed gas along the track. Friction set the fuel on fire, leaving a 100-yd. blanket of flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with...
...streets of Taejon, some of the trapped Americans fought the Reds at close quarters (see cut); others battled desperately to reopen the southern escape lines. Overhead, U.S. Mustangs and F80 jet fighters wheeled and roared down to attack Communist tanks with rockets. Dense clouds of oil smoke boiled up from detonated U.S. fuel supplies; as ammunition stores exploded, great orange flashes broke through the smoke clouds. Occasionally a U.S. jeep veered crazily off a street and crashed into the side of a building, its driver dead at the wheel...