Word: colin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oldest and slowest major road race; in Sicily. With Co-Driver Nino Vaccarella Bandini piloted his prototype Ferrari around the twisting, hilly course at an average speed of 63.7 m.p.h., finished a full 5 min. ahead of his closest pursuer: a Porsche driven by Britain's Colin Davis...
More from the Sun. Martian life, said the panel headed by Princeton Biologist Colin S. Pittendrigh and Stanford's Nobel-prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, must be hardy enough to survive long periods of extreme dryness and cold. Martian organisms may concentrate water vapor the way earthly plants collect small traces of carbon dioxide; they may even make their own water by chemical action. There is a possibility that they need no water at all, using some other liquid as a fluid medium...
...opponent, Leyton Engineer Ronald Buxton, tried to soft-pedal it. Nastily and noisily, the neo-Nazis invaded Gordon Walker's first campaign rally in Leyton, were only repulsed after Gordon Walker threw a right uppercut and Labor's burly Defense Minister Denis Healey hurled the Fascist leader, Colin Jordan, off the platform into the front...
Girls would be admitted only for those years, according to committee secretary Colin F. N. Irving '45, partly because the difference in social maturation between boys and girls seems to be too great at an earlier age. Since Exeter now has an enrollment of 750, he added, the boy-girl ratio in the upper grades would be improved by not admitting girls in all four classes...
...shot into the lead. By the 13th lap, he was already lapping stragglers. Twice, he shattered the official track record, and on the 84th lap, he zipped around the 2.4-mile course in 1 min. 27.4 sec. to break it a third time-clocking 100.33 m.p.h. Smiled Lotus Designer Colin Chapman: "He must have an itch in his corset...