Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blossoms of Flame. For much of the day, it looked as if the race would not even get properly started. As the red Mercury Comet pace car, driven by Benson Ford, turned into the pits, the field surged across the starting line at 100 m.p.h. in neat rows of three. Suddenly, the careful symmetry became a tangle of junk. In what looked like a "dodgem" game, the track was filled with spinning, fishtailing, crashing racers. Axles and suspensions snapped, tires sailed through the air, spurts of flame from spilled fuel blossomed on the asphalt. Driver Arnie Knepper climbed from...
...That's quite a load," he sighed, "when a car weighing 1,450 Ibs. is sitting on your head. But it didn't stay there long." Said Dan Gurney in disgust: "It seems like 33 of what are supposed to be the best drivers in the world ought to be able to drive down a little straightaway piece of road without running into each other. Everybody has a brake and an accelerator. If one of these drivers had a brain too, this wouldn't have happened...
...daylight in the middle of the third row, tried to squeeze through, and missed. He bumped into the man ahead, starting the chain-reaction crash. Foster denied it, said that someone, "I don't know who," had faded into him, forcing him out of line, and into another car...
...acres of industrial sites scattered along its right of way. >Menk cut paper work by ordering 419 forms discontinued, including one that took five hours to prepare and was then promptly filed and forgotten, has also trimmed 1,200 employees from the payroll, shifted others. >To regulate freight-car movements more efficiently, the Burlington is leasing an IBM 360 computer, is also building a $6,500,000 private microwave system to speed computer data between Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul...
Died. Princess Marie Christine of Prussia, 18, great-granddaughter of the last Kaiser, whose father, Prince Hubertus, died of peritonitis when she was three; following the crash of her car, six weeks after her favorite uncle, Prince Friedrich, committed suicide by drowning in the Rhine; in Giessen, Germany...