Word: langs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final day was a Mercédès parade. Veteran Kling drove his lightweight (under 2,000 Ibs.) aluminum-bodied racer at a 160-m.p.h. clip over stretches of the final lap. Kling's overall average: 102 m.p.h., shattering the 1951 Ferrari record of 88.09 m.p.h. Hermann Lang, Le Mans winner, brought his Mercédès in second, followed by Luigi Chinetti in a Ferrari. The stock-car race was even more of a runaway for the 1953 Lincolns (see BUSINESS). The 205-h.p. Lincolns, mounting four-barrel carburetors and heavy-duty shock absorbers, were...
...RICHARD LANG...
Summer acquisitions include a $140 microphone, a tape recorder, a console controlling ten mikes, two turntables, and a Baruch-Lang high fidelity speaker system developed by the M.I.T. Acoustical Laboratory. Enlarged executive offices and sound-proofing installation in one of the studies completed the station's physical improvements...
Producer Walter Wanger, 58, was released from jail'after serving 98 days of a four-month sentence (mostly on the Los Angeles county prison farm) for shooting Jennings Lang, agent for Wanger's wife, Joan Bennett, in a Beverly Hills parking-lot encounter last December...
...churches. Service as chaplains or enlistments in the armed forces had called away many priests and candidates for the clergy. The church also had a grave internal problem. Archbishop Temple had been a militant Low Churchman who accentuated the Protestantism of the Anglican Communion. His predecessor, Archbishop Lang, had been an equally strong Anglo-Catholic. As a result of the strains of these sharply contrasting administrations, the historic balance between the two factions was wavering...