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...started his own publishing house (Wilfred Funk, Inc.). He tried his hand at light verse, drew up a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language (dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody) and the ten most overworked (okay, terrific, lousy, definitely, racket, gal, honey, swell, contact, impact'). He even compiled a canine dictionary of 204 words that every well-bred dog should understand, ranging from a basic siccum to slippers and ice cream...
...cars to stop at least twice. Sloppy work by Lotus mechanics had hurt Clark's chances in 1963 (he finished second to Parnelli Jones), and Designer Colin Chapman was determined not to let this happen again. Carefully calculating Clark's rate of fuel consumption (3 mi. per gal. of alcohol), he scheduled a stop every 162 mi. He redesigned the Lotus' gas tank to speed up the refueling process. Finally, he hired a crew of ringers to handle the hoses: the Wood Brothers (actually four brothers and two friends), who are famed around the U.S. stock...
Clark's first pit stop-he took on 58 gal. of alcohol-lasted exactly 19.8 sec. "After that," said Jim, "I knew we had it won." Foyt's pit stop cost him 44.3 sec.-and by the halfway point he was 58 sec. behind Clark. Soon after, pressing to close the gap, Foyt stripped his transmission and coasted helplessly back to the pits. Clark's pit crew flashed the word: FOYT OUT! Grinned Jim: "I was glad that A.J. was through, of course. But I could have licked him anyway...
Worst hit was Seattle, where seven people died in the quake's only fatalities, four from heart attacks. One man was killed by flying bricks and mortar; two others died after parts of a shattered 50,000-gal. water tank fell on them. Elsewhere in the state, chimneys toppled, power lines snapped, roads buckled and bridges swayed. At the capitol in Olympia, the 37-year-old dome cracked, pillars shifted, and fragments of glass skylights crashed down on the legislators' empty chairs...
Pioneering Gal. That attitude persists, but the barriers are crumbling. It was, after all, a woman federal judge, Sarah T. Hughes of Dallas, who swore in President Johnson 99 minutes after President Kennedy's death. "The sooner we get to consider women as individuals rather than as women, the better it will be," says Judge Hughes. "All women are not alike, just as all men are not alike...