Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent maneuverings over gold, the U.S. Treasury's performance has resembled that of a man who leaps out of the way of an oncoming car only to be hit by a truck coming from the other direction. After the British pound was devalued, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler warned that the dollar was next in line for speculative attack. That warning was actually aimed at Congressman Wilbur Mills in an attempt to gain support for the domestic surtax proposal, but its chief result was to further fan speculation and cause a heavy loss of U.S. gold. Last month...
...boss. Its target was the Communist Party's own fat cats. In Rumania, as in the rest of Eastern Europe these days, the party is working hard to eradicate one of the biggest and most abused privileges perpetuated by Communism's affluent new class: the chauffeur-driven car...
...Climax engine (originally designed to power a fire-engine water pump), the Lotus 49 boasts a brand-new V-8 Ford-Cosworth engine that may well give Ford a Grand Prix championship to go with the victories it has already won at Indianapolis, Le Mans and on the stock-car circuit. Constructed mainly of aluminum, with a single-plane crankshaft (instead of the usual V-8 two-plane shaft) that permits a simplified exhaust system, the engine took a year and a half to develop, and can actually be tuned, if desired, to put out as many as 420 horses...
...wouldn't be caught dead in it; and if I ever did get in it, I probably would be." Britain's Graham Hill, who drove another Lotus 49 to second place in the 204-mi. South African Grand Prix, says: "You have to keep tabs on the car. You can't let it get away from...
...what I'd like it to be," and says that if the engine is tuned too high, "you get wheelspin even at 6,000 r.p.m. in top gear." Still, shrugs Jim, who has never had a serious shunt, "I don't see any special danger in the car-insofar as danger...