Word: races
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be pampered. According to Hollywood folklore, Jack Benny once used a quick series of five plugs which furnished the home of a writer who was about to get married. But a writer often has to exercise all his creative talents to ease in a plug. Working on a racing yarn, one writer yearned to plug a well-known drug product. Solution: he named a race horse Anahist...
...competition annually forge a flock of tough, tenacious teams that can meet any squad in the land on even terms. Last week thrice-beaten Michigan State overturned Northwestern, 15-10, and thrice-beaten Illinois did the same to Wisconsin, 9-6, to throw the Big Ten race into a three-way tie, prove again that the league plays the best-balanced, and on average, the best college football...
FORD-CHEVY RACE will be won by Ford in calendar 1959. Chevy is now shade ahead, but Ford will outsell its traditional rival because of steel strike. Since Ford makes 40% to 50% of its own steel, company can produce 20,000 cars a week until end of the year, well above Chevy output...
...hours one day last week, the roar of auto engines echoed against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains as 23 cars gunned and slid around the $500,000 Continental Divide Raceways near Denver. The competition on the twisty, 2.8-mile circuit was the first endurance race to see how well Detroit's new compact cars stack up against their competition both at home and from abroad...
During the late stages of the Ivy League race, a pattern was formed that converged inevitably on the game at New Haven. This afternoon, for the first time in formal Ivy Competition, the League championship will be waiting for the victors...