Word: competitors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Down the street from Cykman's main salon is a larger competitor: Design Thai, which is financed by the Rockefeller brothers' International Basic Economy Corp. and masterminded by chic Jacqueline Ayer, 33, a Negro from New York, who came to Bangkok by way of Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Vogue magazine (for which she was a fashion illustrator). She worked out methods for printing intricate designs on Thai silk, imported tailors and pattern makers from Hong Kong, and put 60 local girls to work sewing. Says she: "I designed on the run-in planes, taxis...
...Anywhere. The victory was worth $1,820-a pittance compared to the $168,500 Clark won at Indianapolis on May 31 (TIME, June 11). It was also worth nine points toward his second Grand Prix championship, boosted his 1965 total so far to 27-ten more than his closest competitor. And it proved, for the nth time, that James Clark, O.B.F., of Edington Mains, Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland, is the world's quickest man on wheels. It was only nine years ago that Clark drove in his first auto race, only five years ago that he sat behind the wheel...
Chores & Concentration. The racing fan is more than a single spectator: he considers himself an active competitor, to one degree or another, in the world's biggest participant sport. Nearly everyone who drives a car thinks, at one time or another, about beating the "hot shoe" in the next lane. Auto companies do their best to enhance the illusion: naming cars "Le Mans," "Monza," "G.T.O.," "Grand Prix"; equipping them with bucket seats, tachometers, four-speed transmissions, and speedometers thoughtfully calibrated up to 160 m.p.h.-85 m.p.h. above the highest legal speed limit...
...lost. On Boxing Day, Dec. 26, he drove the Reivers' Lotus Elite in a ten-lap race at Brands Hatch, found himself involved in "a whale of a dice" with another Elite driven by a persistent, mustachioed fellow who bore a striking resemblance to Actor David Niven. His competitor, it later turned out, was Colin Chapman -a young, prematurely grey engineer who had graduated from London University in 1948, set up shop in 1952 as Lotus Cars, Ltd. For eight of the ten laps, Jim managed to stay in front. Then an Austin-Healey Sprite grazed his Lotus...
...welding equipment, who in 1934 instituted a program of employee bonus incentives on the premise that "selfishness is the motivating force of all human endeavor," which was so successful in boosting volume and cutting costs that he was able to sell his products for less than any competitor, while giving his employees almost double the money (an average $13,000 annually) paid elsewhere in the industry; of heart disease; in Cleveland...