Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down rings. He took the picture on the last color page-a gold and green view of Giza-from a helicopter flown by a U.A.R. Air Force crew, firing away with his F-8 from a sitting position in the doorway with his feet on the landing gear. This was more or less routine for Lowry, an expert in aerial photography, but he felt a bit queasy when he was shooting the interior of one of the dam tunnels. "Things kept falling from the ceiling," he said. "I think the workmen there are either very courageous or very fatalistic...
...introduction. The other automakers also notice that their best-selling models are those that were either all new or sharply restyled for 1964. That gives them good reason to hope that the completely restyled 1965 models will keep the auto industry moving forward in high sales gear...
...four-engined Douglas DC-7 skimmed at 140 m.p.h. across the desert sands near Phoenix, Ariz., clipped a pile of railroad ties that sheared off its propellers and landing gear. Next, the left wing smashed into a 25-ft. mound of dirt. Then the right slammed into three poles, which sliced off its tip. The fuselage hurtled onward, hopscotched over a 55-ft. hill, skidded to a shattering stop and burst into flames. Tense U.S. aviation experts broke into grins of delight; rarely had they witnessed such constructive destruction...
...entrants in this year's contest came from such chilly climes as Worcester, Mass., and included a group of 17 from Indiana. Flying into San Jose two weeks ago, they boarded buses, rode four hours to Puerto Viejo -the end of the road. There they packed their gear into dugout canoes equipped with outboards, put-putted for another nine hours down the Sarapiqui River and the San Juan. The fishing more than made up for the hardship. One of the world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon is a jumping fool that often runs well over...
...night before, Shelby, a tall, bold, wreck-scarred Texan, outlined a simple strategy for the race. Nine Cobras were to tool along at 6,000 r.p.m., fast enough to place respectably, but slow enough to keep from breaking down on a track that demands 28 grating changes of gear to get through a single lap. The other two cars would bear down hard and stay in front of Ferrari's G.T.s at any cost-for as long as they held together...