Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just one -more. His mother said. "Daddy will strap you," and sent him to bed. Cassius used to dream that some day he would be big enough to walk around the block all by himself and not worry about that one step. And he talked about "getting a wheel and wheeling around that block...
...came easy in Louisville's West End. "Why can't I be rich?" Cassius once asked his father. His father touched him on one pecan-colored hand and said. "Look there. That's why you can't be rich." But at twelve. Cassius got his "wheel." It was a shiny $60 bicycle, and he proudly pedaled off to a fair at the Columbia Gym downtown. When the show was over, the bike was gone. In tears, Cassius sought out Policeman Joe Martin. "If I find the kid who stole my bike." he said...
...quarrelsome and sickly in his old age, was in Switzerland during the long months of the investigation and trial. By the time he heard of the case, judgment had been pronounced. Mme. Calas was released, her other son was banished from France. But Father Calas was executed upon the wheel; the judges' sentence stipulated that his arms, legs, loins and thighs were to be broken and "his face turned to the sky, to live in pain and repentance . . . as long as it pleases God to give him life...
...distinct trend in the industry is toward ever bigger long-distance haulers; 20-ton giants and 42-wheel monsters are already at work. Yet, paradoxically, the days of the continent-spanning truckers may be running out because railroads are fighting back so successfully with their long-distance piggyback service, which last year took 500,000 highway trips away from trucks. The piggyback threat worries truck builders, but they see a bright side of it: there will always have to be truck tractors to deliver the trailers before and after their piggyback...
...head of the Duplate Canada subsidiary of Pittsburgh Plate Glass; John Angus McDougald. chairman of Avco of Canada; and M. Wallace McCutcheon. then chair man of National Life Assurance of Canada.* "Taylor is the idea man." explains Phillips, "but if he didn't have us as a balance wheel, he would go broke...