Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...erected defenses was the decline in his business brought about by increased farm mechanization. He recently applied for welfare benefits and was turned down, which acquaintances say thoroughly embittered him. Then there was the ar senal of weapons found in the Sullivan labor camp and Juan's 1971 Chevrolet van: two hunting knives, two butcher knives, a double-bladed ax, a club with possible bloodstains, pistol shells and a machete. Police also discovered empty graves that had apparently been prepared but left unfilled...
...others, aged five to 18, sitting under an avocado tree. "Does anybody know where the algebra book is?" he asked. It seemed there were only two, and one was last seen "on the blue table under a pile of crap and stuff." Pointing at a beat-up 1952 Chevrolet that reminds the kids of hoodlum movies, a boy suggested, "Look in the gangster car." The big kid eventually found the book-and someone to teach him a lesson from it. But a visitor had to ask: Is this education...
...figure a guy who drives a Chevrolet can give more than a guy who walks, and a guy who drives a sports car can give more than the one in the Chevy," Peebles said...
Other top U.S. drivers suffered different misfortunes. Al Unser, winner of last year's Indianapolis 500, had to drop out when his Lola-Chevrolet developed oil pressure problems. A.J. Foyt drove a McLaren-Chevrolet until the motor quit. Follmer's Lotus-Ford suffered a broken rocker arm. British Driver Derek Bell, for one, regarded the U.S. cars as so much clutter. "It's frustrating," he groused, "for a Formula One driver to wait...
Andretti snaked around the 3.2-mile course at an average speed of 109 m.p.h., fought his way past tenacious Mark Donohue in a Formula A Lola-Chevrolet and then closed on the leader, Scotland's Jackie Stewart. Executing a neat passing maneuver on the 31st lap, he gunned by Stewart's blue Tyrrell-Ford and won going away. The second heat was more of the same as Andretti bested Stewart by a 12.3-sec. margin. After accepting his $39,400 winner's prize, Andretti suggested that the U.S. Formula A team could take some consolation from...