Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday's scrimmage and yesterday's practice the forwards were extraordinarily strong within the pack. They seemed to have mastered the wheel method for taking the ball, and they were packing very well in loose scrums. However, they were sluggish in following the backs. Veteran second-row man Mike Foley attributed this to pre-season inexperience and poor conditioning...
Miss Wetherhill herself testified during the trial and documented many of the acts of vandalism. She recalled how some of the youths had tried to turn a decorative ship's wheel in the mansion and how others had broken one of the beds upstairs...
...speeds up to 90 m.p.h. to get more. Reporters in the cars behind could scarcely keep up, and all kept a wary eye on their speedometers. In the President's car, someone gasped at how fast Johnson was driving. Quickly, Lyndon took one hand from the wheel, removed his five-gallon hat and flopped it on the dashboard to cover the speedometer. Later, White House Press Secretary George Reedy-in a statement almost as foolhardy as the President's driving-tried to deny that Johnson had exceeded Texas' 70 m.p.h. speed limit...
With the largest auto population in the world, the U.S. travels on rubber-and each wheel means a sale for some tire manufacturer. The fight to make that sale has led to one of the biggest price wars in years. The main weapon in the war is a new, low-priced tire known in the trade as a "cheapie," which sells for as little as $6.95 v. about $25 for a standard quality name-brand tire. The stakes are big: the tire industry sells some $3 billion worth of tires a year. The contestants are many: more than 115 brands...
...that gave the Vintage Chevrolet Club of America a bright, if belated, idea. They would bestow honorary membership on Suzanne Chevrolet, 75. Off chugged the members to her home near Detroit, with a vintage 1915 Chevy in tow. The automaker's widow graciously climbed behind the wheel, chatted about Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet. And which model does she drive today? "A Mercury," she replied. "They gave me a better deal...