Word: carli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely subsided, but natives flock to such offshoots as the Commercial Vision Seeing, the Father Divine Apostolic, and the Cherubim and Seraphim churches. Lagos has its local "Jesus" in one Emmanuel Odumosu, who insists on strict abstinence from alcohol but has seven wives and rides in a luxurious Pontiac car driven by a chauffeur...
Haul No. 1 caught two oldsters who used a new Moskvich sedan to make the rounds of Moscow churches. One of them would dress in rags and rattle a tin cup at the church door while the other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of crucifixes, icons, tracts and lamps and did a brisk business at a fat profit until the counterfeit beggar tipped him off that the cops were coming. One day the agents of the Department for Fighting Theft and Speculation seized...
...Rathmann was only 20 in 1949 when he drove in his first Indianapolis 500. But he was already a veteran of the hot-rod and stock-car circuits, and he had scars and some chipped vertebrae to prove it. In that first start in Indianapolis' famed "Brickyard," Rathmann finished a creditable eleventh, and swore then and there that he would some day win the biggest event in U.S. racing...
...taking one of the most dramatic 500s in the 50-year history of the event, Rathmann earned $44,000 (plus an estimated $15,000 in endorsements and personal appearances) and the right to paint "No. 1" on the side of his car until the next 500. Said the ex-Bridesmaid of the Brickyard: "Ward's car seemed to have more steam than mine, but I just kept pushing him close. I don't believe in hard braking when you're trying to catch someone. I ran flat...
NEGRO LABOR COUNCIL was organized in Detroit by A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, to represent 1.5 million Negroes in U.S. unions. Council will fight inside A.F.L.-C.I.O. to end segregation and discrimination in labor movement...