Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oregon's indefatigable Maurine Neuberger, 53, the wheel came a somber circle. Her husband and predecessor as Oregon's junior Democratic Senator, Richard Neuberger, in 1959 reported himself cured of cancer only to die the following year of a stroke. Last week Maurine, who had not been herself since a recent swing through Africa, was operated on in Portland for removal of an intestinal growth. Though preliminary biopsy revealed "low-grade malignant changes," her condition at week's end was reportedly "good...
...sales are sports cars, is coming out with two revised versions of its low-cost Austin-Healey Sprite ($1,868). It has also converted its tiny Austin 850 into the 90-m.p.h. Austin-Cooper mini-sports sedan boasting twin carburetors, disc brakes, and sure-footed front-wheel drive. Rootes is pushing its prestigious, $4,295 Humber (30% of its buyers are doctors, who like its luxurious interior and unpretentious exterior...
Tale has announced with "greatest disappointment" that the traditional Harvard-Yale bicycle race will not be held this year. But the Yale Spoke and Wheel Society has assured the many fans of stock bike racing that it will do its utmost to revive its rivalry with the Barhandlers next year...
...engines were out, and the No. 1 engine was beginning to lose power. Coming in for an emergency landing, the pilot discovered that the nose wheel was not locked down into place. He pulled up the laboring Constellation, began to circle for another approach-and smashed into a swampy wood outside Richmond, Va. The crash and fire last week killed 74 Army recruits who were being flown to Fort Jackson, S.C., and touched off bitter criticism of the Army's system of transporting troops...
...believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images. In one, a ballroom filled with swilling businessmen whirls like a carousel as the camera slowly descends to discover that this frivolous world of profit and pleasure is being turned by a great mill wheel, and the wheel itself by the sweat and strength of poor men chained like beasts to an eternal round of labor without value, suffering without sense...