Word: lighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
This year's team, which is reportedly much lighter than last year's, may make it up on speed. The ruggers have John Nichols, 1953 football captain, making his first rugby appearance, Arnie Horween, another varsity player, and Howie Finney, jayvee star...
...professional wrestler and two other bully boys-got the alert. At 7:20 on the morning of July 8, an East German Opel, disguised as a West Berlin taxicab, stopped outside Linse's home. Linse emerged and Knobloch asked him for a light. As Linse fumbled for his lighter, the wrestler pinioned his arms. Linse broke free and ran to the "cab" seeking help. The thugs inside grabbed him, threw him into the back seat and sped...
...them. A San Francisco brewery got in the swim by advertising: "Regal Pale Is the Low-Calorie Beer." In Atlanta, the Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill was punishing himself at breakfast and lunch with a trick powder, mixed with fruit juice, to kill appetite. Said McGill, 25 Ibs. lighter in 14 weeks: "I just decided to stop being silly about it and lose some of that ugly weight." His regimen still allowed him to enjoy a standard dinner...
Dashboard Shaver. North American Phillips Co. put on the market an electric shaver (the Norelco Sportsman) that operates on three flashlight batteries, can also be plugged into an automobile cigarette lighter socket. Price...