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Stock car racer Fonty Flock straps his helmet on the beach-road course at Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 26, 1956. (AP Photo)

Winners of the NASCAR Convertible Stock Car Race pose in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Feb. 25, 1956. From left are, Herb Thomas, Sanford, N.C., third plac...

Curtis Turner poses with his trophy cup after winning the Convertible Stock Car Race at Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 25, 1956. (AP Photo)

Curtis Turner rounds the south turn in his Ford as he makes the transition from the paved road onto the beach for the last lap to win the Convertible...

Jimmy Demaret of Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., blasts his way out of the sand trap on No. 1 at the $30,000 Houston Open Golf Tournament in Houston, Texas, Feb....

Ted Kroll is shown in Texas on Feb. 25, 1956. Kroll won eight PGA Tour events during a 34-year career and led the money list in 1956. He died Apri...

A crowd gathers for the ribbon cutting ceremony at the opening of the new Fred Harvey shopping center in the Chicago Union Station, the first of its k...

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Comedienne Martha Raye poses with a floral piece addressed to the

Jimmy Demaret admires his first place check for $2,000 in the $15,000 Thunderbird Invitational at Palm Springs, Ca., Jan. 29, 1956. Demaret defeated...

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Actress Katharine Hepburn is shown during filming of

The ten outstanding young men of America for 1955, selected by the U.S. junior chamber of commerce, are shown at a banquet in their honor at Springfie...

Ice from the Antarctic polar plateau pushes its way between mountain peaks to form the Beardmore Glacier, which carries countless millions of tons of...

Ice from the Antarctic polar plateau pushes its way between mountain peaks to form the Beardmore Glacier, which carries countless millions of tons of...

The official Pace Car for the Memorial Day Indianapolis Motor Speedway 500-mile race is unveiled at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, Jan. 1...

Stock cars wait for the stock car race to begin on the beach-road course at Daytona Beach, Fla., 1956. (AP Photo)

Guard towers on Alcatraz prison overlook the recreation yard and San Francisco Bay, Ca., 1956, the last time photgraphers were permitted on the island...

Evangelist Billy Graham is shown Brook fishing in 1956. The location is not known. (AP Photo)

Playwright Arthur Miller is shown in 1956 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

American actress Grace Kelly, left, and British actor Alec Guinness are shown on location during filming of

U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon points to a replica of the Wright Brothers' first airplane as he stands with the three winners of aviation's top awa...

This is a general view of Dheisheh camp where more than five thousand Palestinian refugees live in tents and shacks located outside the West Bank town...

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This is an aerial view of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pa., on Nov. 28, 1955. (AP Photo)

Four Middle East Premiers pose with Harold MacMillan, British Foreign Secretary, at the inaugural meeting of the Baghdad Pact in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 2...

Terry Sawchuk, Boston Bruins goalie, receives the Vezina Trophy from National Hockey League President Clarence Campbell before game at Boston Garden,...

Marlene Dietrich performs during her opening night at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 4, 1955. (AP Photo)

The Ames Brothers, from left, Vic, Joe, Gene and Ed, pose before boarding an airplane in New York City en route to Canada in Oct. 1955. (AP Photo)

Sandy Koufax, rookie left-handed pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is shown at the drafting board at Columbia University where he is attending the win...

Grace E. Earle, standing, chief operator, and five other telephone operators work at the White House switchboard located on the second floor of the we...

Singer Eddie Fisher, 26, feeds a piece of wedding cake to his bride, actress Debbie Reynolds, 23, following their marriage at Grossinger, N.Y., on Sep...

A vendor selling multi-colored balloons stops for a woman and a baby in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, on Sept. 15, 1955. (AP Photo/...

Frank Sinatra is shown in the role of a prince surrounded by harem girls during festivities at the re-opening of the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., S...

Turkish Army tanks roll through the streets of Istanbul past piles of pillaged goods following the anti-Greek riots, Sept. 8, 1955. The mob disorders...

Evangelist Billy Graham speaks at the opening of the annual Methodist camp meeting at Ocean Grove, N.J., Sept. 3, 1955. He addresses a record breakin...

Owner William Woodward Jr. congratulates Nashua and jockey Eddie Arcaro in the winner's circle after Nashua won the Great Match Race against Swaps, Ke...

Italian actress Sophia Loren waves from a motorboat during a sightseeing tour on the Canal Grande in Venice, Italy, on Aug. 25, 1955. Loren is here f...

U.S. Sen. Lyndon Johnson, D-Texas, poses with his wife, Ladybird, and waves farewell before flying to their home in Texas from Washington's airport, D...

The old and new bridges carrying four railroad tracks over Harlem River can be seen side by side as a train heads into New York's Grand Central Termin...

William P. Lear of Lear Inc., one of the world's biggest manufacturer of small planes, checks an electronic assembly line of communications equipment...

Workers polish the one-millionth Volkswagen after it leaves the production line in Gemany's biggest auto plant in Wolfsburg on Aug. 5, 1955. The jubi...

This is a general view of the HMTS Monarch taking on the telephone cable on the Thames at Erith, Kent, England, July 25, 1955. The cable, designed to...

Elmer A. Taft, manager of the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdale breeding farm in St. Louis, Mo., is shown with two of ten Clydesdale horses to be shipped aboa...

King Saud of Saudi Arabia is seen with Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, aboard the tanker

Jazz musician Benny Goodman, standing, gives comedian and television actor Steve Allen a few pointers on the clarinet in Hollywood, Ca., July 4, 1955....

This general view from the Steeplechase Pier shows part of the huge crowd that fills the water and beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Indepen...

This is a general view of the Harlem River lift span of the Triborough Bridge in New York City, July 1955. The single-deck bridge connects Manhattan...

This is an aerial view of Times Square from the New York Times newspaper tower building at 42nd Street looking north, June 15, 1955. The street at le...

American poet Robert Frost is shown June 15, 1955 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)