Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect it to last more than 30 minutes," Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith growled on the eve of his meeting with black Rhodesian leaders. In fact the meeting, held in a white railway car perched on a bridge 310 ft. above the Zambezi River and overlooking thundering Victoria Falls, was spread over 14 hours. While it came to nothing, there was one consolation for Smith's foes. Mused Bishop Abel Muzorewa, head of the African National Council that claims to speak for Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks: "It was the longest 30 minutes of Mr. Smith...
...left for a lunch break, Smith told reporters: "All the problems are on the other side." Later he groused: "I believed I was talking to normal people, but these chaps are a little unnormal at the moment." Shortly before midnight a glowering John Vorster stormed out of the railway car and left for home. He was soon followed by Kenneth Kaunda. As the meeting adjourned at midnight, Smith seemed positively elated by the prospect of its failure...
...star-shaped sunglasses, Elton had joined Ted and Ethel Kennedy, plus some 40 celebrity racket wielders for the fourth annual Robert F. Kennedy charity tournament. While Jackie Onassis and Daughter Caroline watched, along with 13,000 other spectators, Tennis Pro Tony Roche collected first prize (a $12,000 BMW car) in the doubles competition with help from his partner, Comedian Alan King. "That's it, I'm retiring as the champion," joked King afterwards. "I'm never playing tennis again...
...coming out was more difficult. It cost her her job as an advertising executive, her female lover, who was afraid to be seen with her, "and at least for a time, a certain portion of my sanity." There were obscene phone calls, dirty words written on her car, slashed tires. People looked on her as "a freak, a tattooed lady." "I wonder, if we knew the cost," she says, "would we still have done...
...quickly built a reputation as a cool, pleasant, almost error-free technician. After winning several major events-including the Indianapolis 500 in 1972-and more than $1 million in purses, he quit driving briefly in 1974, then slipped into the slim cockpit of a Formula One car this year in pursuit of the one trophy that still eluded him: a major Grand Prix victory. "That last lap," he said during his short retirement. "I really didn't want it to end; I wanted...