Word: fin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...races, but twelve of his creations were entered in the Continental, including the car that won at Le Mans last year and a 1966 4.4-liter prototype. Then there was the homegrown Chevy-powered Chaparral II, which boasted such refinements as automatic transmission and a pedal-operated stabilizing fin. With Phil Hill, the ex-Grand Prix champion, at the wheel, the Chaparral turned in a 116-m.p.h. practice run, and more than one sportswriter picked...
ESAU AND JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Machado is the Proust of fin de siècle Rio de Janeiro. His chronicle of old manners and old morals being swept away by new money has the fascination of a gossip column and the authenticity of a diary preserved in lavender...
...tycoons were enjoying the fruits of their conquests in the world of finance and politics. Their sons and daughters were whirling at fashionable balls, attending the opera and negotiating advantageous marriages. Along the gaslit avenues, streetcars were beginning to compete with horse-drawn landaus. Sounds like some place in fin-de-siècle Europe? Actually it is Rio de Janeiro during the last quarter of the 19th century, as affectionately remembered by Brazil's extraordinary novelist, Machado de Assis, who died in 1908. A popular author during his lifetime, Machado was rediscovered in Brazil at the time...
Wrapped in an aluminum skin, the M2-F2 measures 22 ft. 2 in. long and 9 ft. 7 in. wide at its broadest point (the tail). To control the glider's descent once it reaches the atmosphere, the pilot has a rudder on each tail fin for turning, a pair of flaps on the top of the aft section of the body for upward pitch and roll adjustments, and a single flap under the aft section for downward pitch. If angle of descent becomes too sharp, the pilot can fire the two small thruster rockets on board. Wings...
...local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular dorsal fin slicing the surface...