Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circuit, at Indianapolis' famed "Brickyard," and on dusty stock-car tracks across the U.S. have only two things in common: a fondness for money and a disdain for one another. Last week they got a chance to exploit both emotions. All three classes of drivers competed in the Daytona Continental, a three-hour endurance race for sports and grand touring cars, run over Florida...
...Daytona International Speedway, fastest track...
Touted as a grudge race, the Daytona Continental lived up to its billing. Semi-Expatriate Phil Hill, the 1961 Grand Prix champion, angered his U.S. competitors by tooling around the tightly banked, 3.81-mile course in a 103.m.p.h. practice run and remarking, "It's nothing. A simple course." Belgium's Olivier Gendebien went even further: "To win here, you don't have to be the best driver-only crazier than the rest." Britain's Stirling Moss and the foreign contingent clucked at the pink powder puffs that Stock Car Driver Joe Weatherly wore on each...
Until her death at 85 two months ago, Soap Heiress Olivia P. Gamble lived unpretentiously in her Cincinnati home, wintered in Daytona Beach. Fla., anonymously aided charities with the money left her by her late father, Procter & Gamble Vice President James N. Gamble. A quiet, retiring woman, she owned a 1952 Dodge worth $200, a 1954 Cadillac worth $700, had no more expensive jewelry than a $1,000 diamond ring. Last week a 91-page inventory of her estate, filed in Cincinnati probate court, showed she might well have lived a little more lavishly. The estate, composed mostly...
...designed to ask questions and pose answers about Western and Oriental civilization. Ohio's strong little Hiram College, which sends 80% of its students to graduate schools, gives a student only three courses at a time, to encourage more intensive study. At Florida's Stetson University near Daytona Beach, where students can get learned and burned at once, able high school juniors get a summer of stiff training by teams of high school and college teachers, may then be accepted immediately at many colleges throughout the country...