Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bistro in Beverly Hills, the banquet list of Hollywood aristocrats included Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye and a couple of Queen Elizabeth's loyal subjects named Burton. Margaret promptly upset her security guards in San Francisco by insisting on an unscheduled ride aboard a cable car up Hyde Street, but not in rush hour...
...bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped." There was Betty Skelton, an advertising executive from Detroit, who set a ladies' land speed record of 277 m.p.h. There were the Summers brothers, Bob and Bill, who showed up with a car powered by four 600-h.p. Chrysler engines -one for each wheel. There were the Arfons brothers, Walt and Art, who showed up with two separate cars-because they have hardly spoken to each other in years...
...with a 536-m.p.h. clocking. Breedlove wrecked the original Spirit by driving it into a salt pond, and this fall he was back at Bonneville with a four-wheeled, jet-powered monstrosity that looked like the product of a union between a pop bottle and a fighter plane. The car was powered by a General Electric J-79 engine (the same kind used in the Air Force's F-104), which Breedlove picked up in Charlotte, N.C., for $7,500-$170,000 below its original cost. Craig himself designed the car's aluminum and fiber-glass body...
...could do just to stay on the ground. Trying for a record last month, Craig discovered himself airborne at 600 m.p.h. Both his braking parachutes blew clear off the car, and he finally managed to bring the runaway machine to a stop just 300 ft. short of the same salt pond in which he had drowned its daddy. Shaken but unhurt, Breedlove riveted two stabilizing wings on Spirit's nose, and last week he was back for another try. Waving to his crew, Breedlove pushed the throttle forward, and Spirit shot off across the flats, trailing a huge rooster...
...Spirit flashed past, Head Timer Joe Petrali checked his timing lights, calculated that Breedlove had taken ex actly 6.613 sec. to negotiate the measured mile. That figured out to 544.382 m.p.h.-well above Arfons' old record. Since an official record requires two runs, Breedlove turned his car around, sped back past the timer at 566.394, for a two-way average of 555.-127 m.p.h. Breedlove had his record back...