Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power was his problem: the two-liter, 245-h.p. Coventry Climax engine in Clark's Lotus was no match for the bigger three-liter engines that his competitors were using this year. He spent most of the year trying to beg, borrow or buy a competitive engine. But for last week's U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, N..Y, the next-to-last race of the J966 season, Jim had a three-liter of his own-a 16-cylinder, 400-h.p. BRM. Then, in practice just a day before the race, his new engine broke down...
...what is to become of the Erie-Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine and the Delaware & Hudson. All of the Eastern railroads are more interested in maintaining freight revenues than in picking up passengers; the ICC, in approving the Pennsylvania and Central's request to merge, has ordered that the bigger line continue current freight interchanges with the smaller railroads in order to guarantee their revenues. The three small roads are destined to eventually end up in a second merger that will link them with the Norfolk & Western and C. & O.-B. & O. in a system as big as the Penn...
...CONTROL. U.S. forces in Viet Nam will get Litton Industries' computers to direct combat missions. With the aid of radar and display screens, airborne computers will show pilots precisely where to go, signal corrections if they stray off course. A command control plane will carry a computer no bigger than a big dictionary that will keep track of all planes in a strike; a similar computer could control the air traffic at a big-city airport...
...MINIATURES. Rollei-Werke has developed its first precision miniature camera for standard 35-mm. film, the Rollei 35, priced just under $125. Other tiny cameras have been on the market for years, but they sacrificed quality by using miniature film. The Rollei 35 is hardly bigger than a king-size pack of cigarettes, weighs 14 oz., comes with a built-in meter, a shutter speed up to 1/500th of a second, and a 40-mm. f3.5 Zeiss Tessar lens...
Either Princeton is not quite the team it was assumed to be (which is probably true), or Columbia is a great deal more than the Ivy cellar-dweller of 1965 (which is most definitely true). "They are bigger, stronger, and deeper than they've been in several years," says Harvard coach John Yovicsin...