Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing assembly lines around now, as had been expected, automakers have discovered that they have a large enough inventory of tires to keep running flat out at least through June. To be sure, they are shipping some cars with only four tires each (no spare for the unlucky driver who gets a flat). But some motorists have been able to get spares from auto dealers who carry stockpiles of tires, and the automakers promise that every buyer will get a fifth tire eventually...
...seat beside him. Added Perry Martin, 18, the choir's chief tenor: "Everything was a tangle of weeping and moaning and of scattered arms and legs." The final toll: 29 dead, including Mrs. Estabrook, whose husband was preceding the bus in his car, and 25 injured, including Driver Evan Prothero...
Impressive Wins. Her problems were not new ones. In Turin, the world's best woman race driver, Italy's Leila Lombardi, 33, who competes on the Grand Prix circuit, recalled last week that "only in the United States have I recently encountered real prejudice. Why do American men say, 'No, you're out of it because you're a woman.' So many American race drivers behave like male chauvinists instead of men who practice a sport...
...ordination, Unser is the chief chauvinist in Indianapolis this year; on his garage is a sign that reads MALE CHAUVINIST PIGS NEED LOVE TOO.) But her credentials were good enough to make independent Car Designer and Builder Rolla Vollstedt think that he had found what he wanted: a woman driver to add to his team, which is headed by Veteran Dick Simon...
...until this January that Bryant Heating & Cooling, the team's corporate sponsor, felt it could afford a second driver. Since then, the road has been rough, even when Janet has had the chance to get out onto it. The Vollstedt team, lacking the big backing enjoyed by teams sponsored by giant oil and tire firms, has moved forward in fits and starts. The worst worry: continual mechanical problems in Guthrie's Vollstedt-designed...