Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many ornithologists and pigeon breeders believe that radars, which are increasing in Europe both in numbers and power, interfere in some unknown way with the mysterious directional sense that guides birds. Some of them report seeing migrating wild ducks enter the field of a powerful radar, wheel in confusion and fly south instead of north...
Promptly at 6:45 a.m. in Mammoth, Ariz, one morning last week, ten boys and girls climbed aboard a bright yellow school bus. Behind the wheel as usual sat smiling little (106 Ibs.) Mrs. Catherine Ann Royale, 53. But this time, as she greeted her passengers, her smile was strained. To everyone on board, the strain was understandable: the yellow bus was making its rounds for the last time...
...Indianapolis, Bill Vukovich, at the wheel of a Fuel Injection Special, won the 38th annual 500-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway race. Grinding for more than 3½ hours around the fume-fouled track, Vukovich maintained an average speed of 130.84 m.p.h., fastest time in speedway history. His nearest competitor: Jimmy Bryan, driving a Dean Van Lines Special, who finished one lap behind...
Among the spokes in Murchison's golden wheel today are 23 wholly-owned companies, including three chemical companies, four taxi and bus companies in Texas, and Chicago's Martha Washington candy company. He controls, in addition to American Mail Line, Delhi and Holt, Ohio's Diebold office-equipment company (60%), Chicago's Consumers construction-materials company (85%), a water company in Indianapolis and six Texas banks (including 100% control of Athens First National). Through Delhi, he has a big interest in Taylor Oil & Gas, and with Sid Richardson, he controls Kirby Petroleum in Houston. Other interests...
Hendersonville, N.C. 1% Reader Childs is correct. Driver Fitch, a good friend of TIME Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker, dropped by Baker's studio while the Cunningham cover portrait was in progress, stayed on to offer technical advice, wound up at the wheel of the lead Cunningham on TIME'S cover.ED...