Word: braking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miles and Co-Driver Lloyd Ruby to cover each lap in exactly 2 min. 4 sec., averaging 110 m.p.h., while the other Fords maintained a slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...
Expansionist Policy. The Administration's reaction to the problem of inflation has been a slowdown best summarized by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler: "If you take your foot off the gas pedal, you won't need to use the brake." In one more letup on the gas last week, the House Ways and Means Committee approved Administration proposals to restore 7% excise taxes on autos and 10% taxes on telephone bills; the committee also approved a faster schedule of corporate-tax collections and a stepped-up pace for personal income-tax withholding...
...Russell Long, the Democratic whip. He recommended Maryland's Daniel Brewster, Michigan's Philip Hart, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye and Maine's Edmund Muskie. Democrats gave unanimous approval to both plan and candidates. Some saw Mansfield's move as an attempt to put a brake on the runaway ambitions of Louisiana's Long, who also takes over the duties of chairman of the Finance Committee this session and is believed by some Democrats to have his eye on Mansfield's leadership post. Others saw it as a White House-ordered reminder to Long...
...plot, characteristically Hawksian, tells of the rough-and-ready guys who race stock cars and their turned-on track followers who cry, cheer and deliver romantic ultimatums that any dewy-eyed dropout might treasure. Scene after scene, brand names-Ford, Omega, Honda, Revell, Firestone, Grey-Rock brake linings-are dragged in like spare parts, as if to guarantee the authenticity of all that happens between location shots of screeching wheels and fiery crashes. "That was a close one . . . oh-oh, there's another one!" cries the agitated track announcer, valiantly promoting the idea that death lurks at every curve...
...Macon, Ga., to Miami (580). The record for uninterrupted travel between major cities, however, still belongs to the New York-to-Chicago stretch. For 845 miles -through the connecting expressways and turnpikes of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois-there is nothing to make a motorist brake except fatigue, an emptying gas tank, a toll station, or a state trooper...