Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's Colin Chapman, builder of the famed Lotus Grand Prix cars and the Lotus-Fords that have taken a first and two seconds at the 500 in the past five years. Their specifications are a carefully kept secret mainly because Andy is currently suing the U.S. Auto Club, which last summer passed new rules aimed at limiting the power of turbine racing cars. The few details that have leaked out seem to indicate that the U.S.A.C.'s aim was bad; reduced engine power or no, Granatelli's turbines are still likely to be the fastest racers...
Choice Graffiti. From the outside, the club could hardly be plainer. Except for a black awning, a red flag emblazoned with a monkey wrench, and a stream of Rolls-Royces arriving and departing, the grey, two-story building looks no different than it did in World War II, when it was a factory turning out bombsights. Inside, the proletarian theme continues with chicken-wirescreened windows, secondhand tables bought at auction for $5 apiece, and bartenders who are togged out in dungarees and blue denim work shirts...
...people who dig The Factory are going to dig it forever," says Sammy Davis Jr., who reckons that Los Angeles has room enough for 20 more places like it. His reckoning is contagious. Tony Curtis, a Factory regular, is about to open a private club of his own called The Candy Store, the defunct Romanoff's will soon be reopened as The Jazz Suite, and Brian Morris is moving into town with The Bumble, patterned after his private Ad Lib club in London. Looking farther afield, the directors of The Factory themselves are planning to franchise other clubs...
Died. Pierre Rey, 70, financial adviser to Prince Rainier and president of Monaco's controlling Société des Bains de Mer from 1953 to 1959, chairman since 1963; of cancer; in Monaco. As boss of the S.B.M., which includes the casino, the yacht club the Hôtel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres, Rey was Rainier's lieutenant in the long struggle with Aristotle Onassis that ended last year when the government paid $8,000,000 for Onassis' interests in the casino company...
...July 2nd, Harvard was paired first against the Leander Rowing Club, the best of the British eights. The London Morning Post called it a splendid struggle." Leander took the lead, but the Americans, rowing "with great dash," overtook them before the half way marker, and won by a length...