Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crumpets. Yet the Offy never wants for challengers. Last week a new one showed up-as out of place at Indy as a diamond cutter in a coal mine. Great tea and crumpets, the English! Sitting in the Speedway pits, Colin Chapman's tiny green Lotuses looked like go-karts next to the burly Offies. They weighed only 1,130 Ibs. compared with nearly 1,400 Ibs. for the lightest Offy. Their power plants were Ford Fairlane V-8s-souped up to 376 h.p., but with carburetors, yet-and they got their nourishment from the good old Esso pump...
With the leaders so tightly bunched, a break could win the race, any mistake would surely lose it. On the 93rd lap, Gurney pulled into the Lotus pit for a routine tire change-and lost all chance of victory. A nervous mechanic misplaced his hammer; Colin Chapman finally found it and kicked it over to him. The delay cost Gurney an insurmountable 42.2 sec. Clark fared only slightly better: his one pit stop, on the 95th lap, took 32.3 sec.-and Jones shot back into the lead. Blocked by heavy traffic, Clark was unable to capitalize on Jones...
...flagman did: after Eddie Sachs skidded wildly on Lap 188 and smashed into the retaining wall, he grabbed a black flag and started to wave it at Jones. Fengler rushed up and told him to put it away. That set off an arm-waving argument between Agajanian and Chapman-in full view of everyone. On Lap 195, with third place sewed up, Roger McCluskey hit an oil slick, lost control, and spun out. Once again, for the ninth time in the race, the yellow caution light flashed on-"slow down, hold position, no passing...
...BRUCE K. CHAPMAN '62 is publisher of Advance, a progressive Repubilcan magazine, now based in Washington, which he and several friends founded at Harvard two years ago. His views in this article are his own and do not necessarily represent those of the CRIMSON...
Divorced. By James Arness. 39, towering (19½ hands) horse opera star (Gun-smoke): Virginia Chapman Arness. 41, who lost the custody of their two children to Arness (he charged she was unfit to raise them, had last month allowed their 12-year-old daughter to drink, causing the girl to be hospitalized with acute alcoholic poisoning); after 14 years of marriage, five of separation; in Los Angeles...