Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...braked his Jag and swung to the right toward the pit. Behind him, Britain's Lance Macklin in an Austin-Healey, running four laps slower than the leader, was caught short. He braked hard and swung left. Behind the Austin-Healey was Pierre Levegh's No. 20 Mercedes, tearing along at 150 m.p.h. Levegh raised his arm in a slowdown wave for his teammate, Argentine Juan Fangio, 100 yards astern. The man who had wondered about the need for signals was beyond their salvation: this one was his last gesture...
Levegh's Mercedes clipped into the rear of the Austin-Healey, sending the little car spinning like a top. The Mercedes rose as if jet-propelled, crashed into a 6-ft. dirt retaining wall...
Skittering and screeching along the pit's wall, the Austin-Healey ran down a row of mechanics, but Driver Macklin escaped with his life. Nearly 50 yards back of the pits a young girl jumped and screamed as a flying foot hit her. Bits of bodies and pieces of machinery rained everywhere...
...Austin B. Mason book awards ($20 each) went to Walter R. Ferris 1G and James Parcher '55, who both did "outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics...
...Austin B. Mason book awards ($20 each) went to Walter R. Ferris 1G and James Parcher '55, who both did "outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics...