Word: braked
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Just outside Chester, Conn., Batchelor suddenly found himself in a traffic crisis that even he had not dealt with in his thousand tries. His brakes failed. Instead of shifting into lower gear, pulling off the road to the right, grabbing for his emergency brake, or simply switching off the ignition and coasting to a stop, Driver Batchelor invited the undertaker. Recognizing what he thought was an open spot ahead, Batchelor swerved left at full speed-into the wrong lane and collision course with a bakery truck. But despite Batchelor's invitation, the undertaker declined. The 74-year-old cartoonist...
...reason: three hours before, when Moss pulled into the pits for brake re pairs, an unthinking mechanic had also filled his gas tank. Bitterly angry at the judges' decision, Moss did not stay around to watch another Ferrari driven by Jo Bonnier and Lucien Bianchi win the race...
...This means they categorically opposed extensions of government operation, defend "states' rights," and refuse to send beyond the limits of the old Congressional game, which assumes both that political roles are neatly divided between the President and Congress, and that the position of Congress is inevitably that of a brake on a too-zealous executive. (The new House Majority Leader, Repi. John McCormack, is a man dedicated to this game; it produced...
...down past pelvis-hugging slacks to cowboy-booted toes, joined Husband Eddie Fisher, 33, on a shopping expedition in Rome. Even in this relatively chaste garb, Liz proved capable of disrupting traffic, had to leap from the path of a gaping motorist who forgot for a moment where his brake...
...Maudling, 44, who has little knowledge of the government's complex colonial problems, which have become a major source of disaffection within the Conservative Party. By installing a new man in the Colonial Office, Macmillan effectively forestalled criticism at the party conference; but the move will not easily brake the African colonies' full-throttled advance to independence...