Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Vellucci introduced his order--scribbled on a piece of yellow paper, Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 dryly said that the Council should wait to see how Harvard's new 600 car garage works...
Ever since he drove at the Brickyard in 1948 (and crashed in the qualifying trials), Andy Granatelli, 44, has dreamed of building a car that would win the Indianapolis 500, the world's richest auto race. In the early '60s, his monstrous (837 h.p.) Novi V-8s hit 200 m.p.h. on the Indy straightaways, but always fell prey to one bug or another. Last year Granatelli came tantalizingly close with his revolutionary, turbine-powered STP Special, driven by Parnelli Jones, which missed winning only because a $6 ball bearing failed with eight miles to go. This...
...Half an hour later, they finally arrived at the embassy. It was 10:15. They were greeted by Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Second Secretary to the embassy. Bich informed them that the AP reporter had already left. (The reporter explained in an interview later that he had to get his car fixed, and decided at 10:10 not to wait any longer.) He then conducted them to the ambassador, Bui Diem...
...MBTA Advisory Board last week approved a plan to move the car barns and repair yards to Mattapan Square and to run a rapid transit line there, replacing the trolleys that now run along the route through Dorchester and Milton. But the trolley stops are too close' together for high-speed subways, so some of the stops would have to be eliminated--three in Milton and one in Dorchester...
...main lobby. Emphasizing the virtues of teamwork, he has arrived at official meetings decked out in baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank's executives ought to aim at bigger and bigger targets, he once donned a shooting jacket and bounded into a conference room amid a volley of blank .30-cal. cartridges...