1967: World On Fire, Chevrolet crushes Ford in Minneapolis

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From Autoweek

Most days of data take position on average slowly, however, almost any day at the time part of 1967 presented a wide variety of stressful stories that reposition the global. In October of that year, my father used the A segment of the Minneapolis Star (now part of the Star-Tribune) on October 12 to line the drawers of his dressing table. I was 19 months old at the time, but a few years ago I helped remove this furniture and discovered those newspaper pages after spending part of a century out of sight. The main photo on the front page showed a terrible car accident in the I-35W/I-494 initial, involving what looks like a 1963 Chevrolet and a burning 1958 Ford after a three-car back. Meanwhile, world news sometimes seemed bad.

In June 1967, Israeli army forces crushed the Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi armies during the Six-Day War, an occasion that remains in force today. In October, diplomats from the United States and the Soviet Union worked with the United Nations in the face of the crisis, without success. This all sounds familiar; A four-year-old Impala crashes into a nine-year-old Crown Victoria in Minneapolis when Middle East peace talks fail, perhaps in 2020 as well as in 1967.

Meanwhile, the de Havilland kite from Cyprus Airways Flight 284 has disappeared into the Mediterranean. A further examination of the wreckage showed that the plane had been shot down by plastic explosives.

The Jewish population in north Minneapolis continued to move into the suburbs after the “long, hot summer” violence a few months earlier. The Coen brothers’ film, A Serious Man, takes place in one of those distraught suburbs in 1967.

It still seemed conceivable this fall that a peace agreement between North and South Vietnam could end the growing confrontation in the former French colonies of Indochina. President Nguyen Van Thieu showed up to meet with President Ho Chi Minh City for peace talks, according to history, however, any hope of such conversations burned like crushed cars on I-35W the following year when Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon used back connections with Thieu. to prevent agreements before the 1968 elections.

Just before Chevy’s fateful turn of the fate of the Minneapolis Ford, Nien Su-Wang became a hero of the Great Cultural Revolution of the proletariat in China (then only a beginner) by recalling President Mao’s mind after wasting his memories in a twisting exercise of fate. This story, taken from the New China News Agency via AP, is presented as polite news to make up for the rest of the occasions of October 12, 1967. Few yuks emerge from the narratives of today’s Cultural Revolution.

Perhaps to cheer on the protagonists of the twist of fate I-35W Chevy/Ford (none of whom were seriously injured), the editor of The Star added this poignant res account of Chicago: Boots, the boxer-Doberman who plays pool at Bee and Sam’s bar.

Underneath one of those pages of the paper, I discovered a little history a few years earlier: the heel of my father’s price ticket for Game 2 of the 1965 World Series, which took place at the Metropolitan Stadium, less than a mile from I-35W. / I-494 interchange and the existing location of the Mall of America. The Twins beat Sandy Koufax that game, but the Dodgers won four of the next five. The history of the car is where you place it.

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