Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, worth an average of $27,235, where Mrs. Subscriber works with a daz zling array of electrical gadgets: 76% of the families studied have automatic washing machines, 30% have electric carving knives, 38% automatic garbage disposals. Half of TIME'S families have more than one car sitting in the garage; 67% of them were bought...
...goal as an ideal is a remarkable turnabout in Communist ideology. So, too, is the newly christened town of Togliatti, the Russian Detroit on the Volga, where a huge Fiat automobile plant is being built as the hub of the five-year plan's aim of boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly increased quantities. One thing the record grain crop will do is give many Russian farmers extra rubles to buy them...
...mild a word to describe Jimmy Clark's turn of luck. The best-known racing-car driver in the world, two-time Grand Prix champion, winner and twice runner-up in the Indianapolis 500, Clark had not won a Grand Prix race all year, and he had lost his world title to Australia's Jack Brabham...
When Clark finally tramped on the throttle, he got the sweetest shock of the year. "The car ran beautifully." His luck had turned again-and so had his competitors'. Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, the early pacesetter, was forced out when his Ferrari developed engine trouble on the 34th lap. Champion Brabham took over - but a cam follower on his Brabham-Repco snapped on the 55th lap. Gunning his Lotus into the lead; Jimmy Clark stayed there the rest of the way, averaging a record 114.94 m.p.h. to win the 20th Grand Prix of his career and the biggest...
...Fiat's squarish, $1,730 model 124 can hit 90 m.p.h. and needs no greasing or lubrication. As the car to be built by Fiat in Russia, it should be the rage of Moscow, where, as of early last year, there were just twelve filling stations...