Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paulo considers itself the Brazilian Wall Street, and Paulistas act and dress accordingly, favoring dark suits and somber miens for all occasions. When he is not at one of the city's 500 sports clubs, Sao Paulo's favorite recreation, the Paulista will usually be in his car fighting Latin America's worst traffic jam (416,000 vehicles on the road). He can also pick from any one of 464 nightclubs, nine times more than Rio, or from some 1,000 restaurants, more than in all the rest of Brazil...
...years ago, as a raw rookie at Indianapolis, he astounded racing experts by placing third and winning $42,551. That same year he won the U.S. Auto Club's big-car championship, a title he took again last year when he won eight out of 15 races and $82,695. This month Andretti teamed with New Zealand's Bruce McLaren to win the Sebring twelve-hour endurance race for sports cars-averaging a record 102.9 m.p.h. in a Ford Mark IV. As soon as that race was over, he flew to Georgia where he took over the wheel...
...Rodger Ward says that Andretti "has to learn patience; he tries to overpower the competition." But maybe Mario can. He is the early favorite to win next month's Indy 500 in his Ford-powered Dean Van Lines Special; he also will drive a Ford Mark IV sports car at Le Mans in June and, if Sebring was any test, he will probably be favored there...
...danger, that is one English word Mario has never been able to understand. In Phoenix, while he was practicing for last week's U.S.A.C.'s Jimmy Bryan 150-mile race, his car went out of control and hit the wall at 130 m.p.h.; Andretti walked away from the wreck with minor bruises. Next day he cracked up again; this time he did not even have a bruise to show for it. "Oh. I've turned over a couple of times, and I've been against the wall," he says. "But I've never even broken...
...thin. Besides the shotput, Matson was asked to compete in the discus throw, an event he does not much like. It was probably not entirely accidental that he forgot to bring his discus with him to the meet; his wife discovered it lying on the floor of the family car and rushed it out to the field. Randy resignedly trudged over to the throwing ring, wound up and sailed the discus 213 ft. 9½ in. - 3 ft. 3½ in. farther than any American had ever hurled it before and barely 2 in. short of the world record held...