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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whiskers hanging down to his waist, clutching a stick for support, a bent figure hobbled onto the starting grid at Holland's Zandvoort race track last week, made his way slowly to a sleek green-and-gold car sitting in the front row. Then, with a smirk at the astonished crowd, Jack Brabham dropped the cane, pulled off the whiskers, revved up the engine of his Brabham-Repco racer, and roared off to win the Dutch Grand Prix...
...proved that the Fords were far faster than the three lighter but less powerful (by 70 h.p.) P3 prototypes entered by Ferrari. California's Dan Gurney set an unofficial lap record of 142.9 m.p.h. in a Mark II, and Fords won the first four places on the starting grid. That made it easy for Beebe. Start in front, he ordered his drivers, stay in front, force the Ferraris to press, and wait for them to break down. It worked. Pouring on the gas, nudging 210 m.p.h. on the 3.5-mile-long Musanne straight, Ken Miles...
There are some petty, albeit indispensible, objective questions on ROTC exams. The cadet is asked to "determine in yards, to the nearest ten yards, the straight-line distance between monumented Bench Mark 295 in grid square FL9975 and monumented Bench Mark 300 in grid square FL9780." He must be able to fill the blanks in the question, "When marching at quick time, swing your arms--inches straight to the front and--inches to the rear of the seams of your trousers...
...million Intalco plant, which will be the third biggest aluminum-producing plant in the world when its three potlines are on stream. The owners of Intalco- American Metal Climax, Howmet and France's Pechiney Co.-were attracted by cheap, abundant power from the Bonneville grid, cheap land, sheltered deep water and fine living for employees...
Friday, however, the winches failed to stop the lower portion of the act. It carried the top part into the lighting grid 52 feet above the stage...