Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Impossible!" growled Andy Granatelli, the Illinois millionaire who developed the controversial turbine-powered car that came within a hair of winning this year's Indianapolis 500. ;"A terrible mistake!" grumbled Parnelli Jones, the Californian who drove Granatelli's flame-colored STP Special at Indy and was only eight miles from victory when a $6 ball bearing failed. What angered Granatelli and Jones was a regulation adopted by the U.S. Auto Club last week that sets new limits on the power of turbine engines - thereby banning the STP Special from Indy...
Granatelli and Jones naturally branded the U.S.A.C. decision unfair. "Sure, we had an edge with our car this year," said Jones, "but it wasn't that big an edge." Not so, countered A. J. Foyt, who won this year's 500 in a conven tional 550-h.p. Ford after Jones broke down. A.J. claimed that the STP Special had more horses than Granatelli or Jones admitted - perhaps as many as 700. He may have a point. Turbines are notoriously affected by weather. On a hot day, a turbine engine may op erate at only 80% of its normal...
...Every time they opened a new superhighway," said George Akerson, publisher of the Boston Traveler, "we got kicked in the teeth. If you go home on a train, you read a newspaper. If you go in a car...
...aluminum products, tomato paste, small tobacco items and eyeglass frames, got lower tariffs for U.S.-made TV tubes in return. The Danes' dander rose over the tariff on live beef, which is an important Danish export. In retaliation, Danish negotiators tacked "reservations" onto their commitment to cut passenger-car tariffs 50%, will likely stand fast on a token 20% reduction...
Died. Jayne Mansfield, 34, sometime actress and full-time publicity chaser; of a crushed skull when the car she was riding in slammed into a truck, also killing Attorney Samuel S. Brody, 40, and their chauffeur; in New Orleans. Endowed with a pretty, pouty face and an astounding (40-18-36) figure, Jayne was single-mindedly intent on becoming a "Hollywood personality," and in a way she succeeded-by flooding the papers with peep-show photos and an incredible series of antic marriages, mishaps and escapades. In her role as the dazzlingly dumb blonde in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...