Word: finisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with eight miles to go kept Parnelli Jones from winning the 500-mile race in Granatelli's revolutionary, turbine-powered STP Special. Last week, in an uncannily similar disaster, Joe Leonard was whooshing toward apparently certain victory in a new STP turbine when-just 22 miles from the finish-a $12 fuel-pump shaft sheared off and the engine died. Granatelli could only watch helplessly as New Mexico's Bobby Unser, driving a piston-engined Eagle, swept triumphantly past the checkered flag...
Hardly more logical was the Amer ican League's decision to split in two. "Nobody," explained one club owner, "wants to finish twelfth in a twelve-team league." But the way the divisions are set up, two clubs could wind up hurting in first. The Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox are assigned to the league's western division, along with two expansion teams - in Kansas City and Seattle - and the lackluster Oakland Athletics and California Angels. They will play 21 fewer home games against the more attractive easte:rn teams - Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, New York...
...that is not truly the finish, since the play-bizarre, hallucinatory and electrifying-is framed within a play. Hadrian VII ends where it begins, in the bare, shabby lodgings of an eccentric, starving, middle-aged writer named Frederick William Rolfe as the bailiffs arrive to strip him even of the manuscript of his novel. The papal reign has all been a dream, an illusion: the primal stuff of theater...
...been billed as the year of the showdown between the conventional piston-powered cars and the new turbine-propelled machines. It's no such thing. The showdown took place a year ago, and tomorrow the turbines will just finish the job they started then...
...judge's decision whether or not to stop the race when the shell ran into its misfortune during the first thirty seconds. Right or wrong, he made the decision not to do so. Placing the Crimson in the finals after its last place finish in the trials not only countermands that decision, but also makes the assumption that the boat would have avoided any further mishap during the course of that particular race...