Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NASCAR's usual straight dashes down the tide-smoothed sands of Daytona Beach, the association concocted its 1958 stock-model performance tests as a yardstick of automobile safety, based them on qualities that the average driver needs in the average car during an average turn at the wheel: maneuverability in downtown traffic and passing ability on the open highway...
...Track. In Baltimore, Charles M. Richardson, 27, piled 1,800 Ibs. of the B. & O. Railroad's prefabricated steel plates onto his horse-drawn wagon, left wheel marks in the blacktop paving as he rode away, got a year's sentence for theft when a judge ruled that the weight of evidence was against...
...West. They fueled trucks with rocket alcohol and headed south. Von Braun had printed official-looking stickers with the mysterious letters VZBV-standing for some fictional sort of "Special Project Disposition"-which cleared all roadblocks for them. During the trip Von Braun's driver fell asleep at the wheel, the car crashed, Von Braun's left arm was broken and his face gashed (he still has a scar above his lip). Von Braun and Dornberger stayed three weeks in a Bavarian mountain lodge, finally sent Von Braun's younger brother, Magnus, bicycling downhill to invite the Americans...
Dore Schary, 53, oldtime writer, big-wheel cinemagnate and devout Democrat, has long mingled his art with politics. In 1956, after a slump at the box office and a series of money-losing movies (The Swan, Somebody Up There Likes Me), he was fired as production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, suspected that the firing was due in part to his support of Adlai Stevenson. Schary had stumped for Stevenson in the 1952 and 1956 campaigns, also produced the doctrinaire film, Pursuit of Happiness, for the Democratic National Committee...
...Sculptor Seymour Lipton, winner of the Jockey Club's top acquisition prize at the Sao Paulo Bienal, hammered out a heroic, 7-ft.-tall Hero. There are more than 30 paintings, including a green, red, and white abstraction by Stuart Davis, a whirling Willem de Kooning, a locomotive wheel by Hedda Sterne and a towering Georgia O'Keeffe cityscape on the building's walls. A Calder mobile floats above a table in Vice President Block's office...