Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states have "assigned-risk" plans, requiring every insurance company to accept a quota of castoffs, whom they sometimes charge 150% above standard rates for minimum coverage. For some accident-prone drivers, even that price may be a bargain, but insurance companies have been so fast and loose about canceling policies that many of those dumped into the assigned-risk pool do not deserve it. In 1964-65, for example, almost 70% of New York's assigned-risk drivers had clean driving records...
...Cleveland steelworker and retired to East Palo Alto, Calif. After a November episode of heart failure, he was admitted to Stanford Medical Center on Jan. 5, in desperate plight. When Kasperak asked his wife, Feme, what she thought about a transplant, she gave what has fast become the standard answer of the Barnard era: "Go ahead-I want you alive with...
...retiree is Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 77, the near-blind head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's chief agency for rooting out heresy. Although a kindly man in person, Ottaviani was a symbol of repressive Catholic conservatism and a leader of the stand-fast minority at the Second Vatican Council. Ottaviani's successor is Yugoslavia's Franjo Cardinal Seper, 62, the Archbishop of Zagreb. As his country's unofficial primate since 1960, Seper (pronounced "shaper") has pursued a course of accommodation with Tito; at the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome...
...winning cars at the Indianapolis, Le Mans and Grand Prix championship races, all of which cost a cool $5,000,000. DeYoung thinks it was worth it. "The younger generation likes it," says he, "and we get an opportunity to test ourselves against competitors. And hell, I like fast cars...
...indeed. Although in many ways a most conservative man, his personal car is a supercharged Ford Mustang capable of speeds exceeding 150 m.p.h. And he likes nothing more than to take a test car out onto his company's San Angelo, Texas, test track just to see how fast it really will...