Word: dan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most auto racers stick to one well-practiced groove-either sports cars, Grand Prix machines, souped-up Detroit stock cars or big Indianapolis racers. Dan Gurney, 31, a lean, blond professional from California, drives anything with wheels-and does it so skillfully that Argentina's retired Juan Miguel Fangio recently went so far as to call him "one of the greatest race drivers in the world." But after eight years on the circuits, Gurney may sometimes wonder if selling insurance would not be better. Few top drivers have suffered through worse luck...
...diving, which was off the one-meter board, was won by sophomore Dan Mahoney with an impressive 89.9 points. His gathering of a near-perfect nine and and an almost never-seen nine and one half would have been remarkable except for the wildly erratic scoring of the three judges, which ranged as much as four points on a single dive...
...broadening the base" by shrinking or abolishing many of the exceptions. On past performance, the outlook for such reform is dim: efforts at revising the income tax code have generally moved in the opposite direction. In 1954, Ways and Means concocted a tax-revision bill that New York Republican Dan Reed, then chairman of the committee, proudly called "the first overall revision of our tax laws which has ever been undertaken...
...Fordham lost only two games, and Vince Lombardi helped bulwark the best-remembered line in college football history. Wrote Columnist Dan Parker...
...butterfly Joe Stetz faces Navy ace Buchanan, a meeting which could produce near-record times. The Middles also will put forward especially strong men in the breaststroke, against Bill Chadsey and Porky Pitts, and in the dive against Dan Mahoney and Jeff Lewy...