Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eminent retiring professors are always likely prospects, but every so often the Fellows throw a change up and pick someone who's still teaching. (Douglas Bush, retiring Gurney Professor of English Literature, got a Litt.D. in 1959, for example.) So they might just pull William Alfred...
...Andretti's accident took care of the rest; he was running third behind two Fords at the time of the crash, and the Porsche was in fourth place. The finish was a parade-Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford. The only really disappointed man on the team was Driver Dan Gurney, who set the pace until the 228th lap, then blew his engine, pushed his car across the finish line and was disqualified from second place. The winners: Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby, who shared driving honors in the No. 1 Ford, covered a record 1,185.6 miles at a record...
...trouble, another with a broken generator, and only four were still operating by noon on the second day. The Fords were running one-two-three and the only real challenger was the 1966 Ferrari prototype, driven by Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez. Rodriguez gave it a try-passing Dan Gurney's Mark II Ford into third place. Gurney swiftly turned in a 116.5-m.p.h. lap, and Rodriguez dropped back to fourth. At 3 p.m. when the checkered flag fluttered, Miles and Ruby, in No. 98, were 30 miles ahead of the pack, and the order of finish was Ford...
...library, to be located in room 774, will be named for Fred Norris Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, who is donating most of the books from his own collection...
...Britain is becoming more like the United States. I found it less interesting than I used to," David E. Owen, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, told the Winthrop House Forum last night...