Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore Juvenile Court, retired in 1943, and is now one of the most successful U.S. cattle breeders (Aberdeen-Angus). Hackney has a daughter and two sons, one son at Princeton ('53). He particularly remembers Stevenson's Hudson Super-Six roadster, which, to be kept in high gear, had to have someone sitting beside the driver to hold the gearshift. This need for a companion in his car, Hackney feels, may have helped Stevenson gain sixth place, in a field of 22, in the yearbook classification, "Thinks He Is the Biggest Fusser [i.e., Ladies' Man]." Hackney and Stevenson...
...cheerers were silent with dismay when the first heat ended. Soon after Miss Great Lakes II conked out for good with a cracked gear box, Slo-mo IV lost a propeller and also dropped out. On the sixth 3-mile lap, Slo-mo V Driver Lou Fageol knew his boat was a goner: water spewing ominously from the exhaust meant that a cylinder had blown. Detroit's Miss Pepsi won the heat at a speed of 101.0242 m.p.h. in the fastest boat race of all time...
...exploded in a flash of brilliant orange flame. A Coast Guardsman dived in and rescued her driver, "Wild Bill" Cantrell, who was severely burned. Then Miss Pepsi, by now the hot favorite and in a slim lead, went dead in the water with a hopelessly broken gear box. Dollar finished the second heat all by himself...
...ready for Salcantay, blond Marcus Broennimann, 28, a mining engineer, and leathery Felix Marx, 48, a foundry technician, bought 1,600 ft. of rope, feather-lined suits, three tents, sleeping bags, canned milk, chocolate, dried fruit and special concentrated food. At the mountain city of Huancayo, they loaded the gear and Broennimann's plump bride Susan into a pickup truck, and drove 530 miles to ancient Cusco...
Last week, the first of the fortune hunters to come out of the wilderness were back in Macapa. Luckiest was Severino Gomes de Almeida, with $25,000 worth of nuggets. But most had found only misfortune. Some had lost their gear or their gold when canoes overturned. Others suffered from malaria, beriberi and bubonic ulcers. Most disillusioned was a prostitute, who had earned only $94.40. "There is no goodness or kindness up there," she said. "All those men think about is gold...