Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, a handful of demonstrators found time to mount an antiwar picket line in Dallas. And in Austin that night, a soft-drink bottle was hurled at Johnson's car from the midst of a crowd of 200 hooting and cheering University of Texas students when the President came unannounced to Governor John Connally's 51st birthday dinner...
...next year the city sponsored its first stock-car race. It was a financial flop. But one of the drivers was Bill France; after finishing fifth, he decided to concentrate on promoting races. By last week, France had made Daytona the capital of stock-car racing, his Daytona International Speedway was the sport's No. 1 emporium and he himself was indisputably king of the stocks...
...Showroom. In the early days, stock-car racing was pretty much catch as catch can: tracks were haphazardly laid out; there were no safety standards for the cars. The need for regulation was recognized by France, whose early operations were so successful that he was soon branching out, staging races in Georgia and the Carolinas. In 1947, he and some friends formed the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing; France was elected president, and there he has remained. The first thing NASCAR did was decree that tracks were to have well-maintained roadways and fire-fighting equipment always...
...antagonized General Motors in 1957 by banning the fuel-injection system used in racing models of the Corvette, drove Chrysler temporarily out of racing in 1965 by banning its "hemi-head" engine; neither, he decreed, qualified as "stock" because ordinary street drivers could not buy them. "France made stock-car racing," a Chrysler official groused. "Now he'll kill...
...Built in 1958, the $3,500,000 Speedway is really two tracks: a two-mile road course for sports cars and the stock-car "trioval"-a roughly triangular, 2½-mile circuit with two high-speed turns banked at 31° and a third turn banked at 18°. The banking, the perfectly smooth asphalt paving, plus the track's unusual width -three cars can race abreast-make it the fastest race track in the world. In qualifying trials for last week's tenth annual Daytona 500, the top 13 qualifiers ran the course at more than...