Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing to wear a button that says WE TRY HARDER; it's another to prove it. When Board Chairman Robert C. Townsend of Avis Rent-A-Car turned up at his office in Garden City, N.Y., one day wearing his company blazer-the kind worn by Avis folks who deal with the public-a bunch of his subordinates started trying harder. They began wearing their own Avis blazers, red or blue, to the office. Soon supervisory personnel in Avis stations all over the world were wearing them. Last week a group of 16 of them posed happily for their...
...love neighborhood characters," he says. And his writing continually reflects his affection for widely assorted types. There was the winsome old lady who wandered out daily for two quarts of beer, and deftly navigated icy winter streets by sliding from parked car to telephone pole to parked car. Then there was Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, the late ace recruiter of new talent for the Chicago syndicate. "He could reach into the backwoods and find talented machine-gun players the way George Halas sometimes spots star material in small colleges...
...innuendos. Sometimes it is easy: Lou Christie's Rhapsody in the Rain, for example, was banned by many radio stations because, as the program director for WLS in Chicago, Gene Taylor, explains, "There was no question about what the lyrics and the beat implied-sexual intercourse in a car, making love to the rhythm of the windshield wipers." A tougher test is the Rolling Stones' I Can't Get No Satisfaction, which has sold 4.5 million copies, with Lead Singer Mick Jagger wailing, "I'm tryin' to make some girl." Difficulty was, Tagger...
...Else." History was against Ford. No U.S. car had ever won at Le Mans; Ferraris, on the other hand, had won nine times, including the last six years in a row. But Ford also had two things going for him, money and determination. The eight sleek Mark II prototypes on which he based his hopes last week cost $100,000 apiece, and they were the last word in automotive sophistication. Only 40 in. high, each packed 475 horses under its hood. Henry himself was on hand to watch them run, and he made no bones about how he expected them...
...official lap record five times in the first 20 laps. Then Gurney took over. Driving the No. 3 Ford, he bettered Miles's mark three times, finally equaling his own practice speed of 142.9 m.p.h. on the 39th lap. Gurney's mechanical-rabbit act ended when his car conked out on the 270th lap. But the damage was done, to the Ferraris...