Word: ferraris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shakers distrusted the ornamental; they avoided both "carpenter Gothic" and Victorian arabesques. Their furniture is functional to a T, and yet their tools are subtly shaped to charm the eye and hand. The Shaker wheelbarrow opposite, for example, looks as elegantly clean-lined as a Ferrari...
...Grand Prix. This year Coventry Climax developed a special four-cylinder, 2.5 liter, Grand Prix engine, and the Coopers started showing their tail pipes to all comers. Car and engine are designed for twisting Grand Prix courses. The Climax engine delivers only 240 h.p. v. 290 h.p. for the Ferrari, can produce less speed on long, straight stretches. But the Climax delivers relatively higher power at medium speeds; in addition, the Cooper uses magnesium castings for many components, making it far lighter than the Ferrari (1,100 Ibs. v. 1,500 Ibs.). As one driver explains, "you can drive...
...auto race, officials bowed when he wanted to take Birgit for a spin in a Ferrari, blanched when he busted into a turn at 100 m.p.h., somehow skidded safely through...
This year at Le Mans, Ferrari, Jaguar and Aston Martin were once again the cars to beat. Ferrari's three-car factory team was favored on the basis of sheer speed, while the Jags and Astons pinned their main hopes on a recurrence of the 1957 race, when mechanical trouble took the Ferraris out of the running. "Our Astons have 40 to 50 h.p. less than the Ferraris," said Aston Martin's Stirling Moss. "On speed we can't touch them...
...Giorno (circ. 150,000), which has consistently backed Mattei's causes and opposed his detractors, followed a left-of-center line, and often been hostile to actions of Premier Antonio Segni's regime. The government consistently denied that taxpayers' money was backing // Giorno, Last week Mario Ferrari-Aggradi, head of the government ministry that controls state properties, stunned Senators by candidly acknowledging that ΙΙ Giorno does indeed belong to Mattei's ENI oil monopoly, "as of now." "ENI is no longer just a state within a state," shouted one Senator, "but a state against...