Word: hood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford also had two things going for him, money and determination. The eight sleek Mark II prototypes on which he based his hopes last week cost $100,000 apiece, and they were the last word in automotive sophistication. Only 40 in. high, each packed 475 horses under its hood. Henry himself was on hand to watch them run, and he made no bones about how he expected them to finish. "You'd better win," he told his director of racing, Leo Beebe, "or else...
...have displayed an integrity so unquestioned that, while I would still prefer to go myself, I am willing to trust my sons [he has three, aged 14 to 24] to your administration, knowing that there is an intellectual and compassionate human at the helm." As the honoris causa hood was placed over McNamara's head, the crowd stood again and clapped...
...Panther-that name may change before the car's introduction in September-is Chevrolet's belated answer to Mustang. It has much the same long hood, set-back passenger compartment and squat trunk of the Mustang, will have about the same average price...
After Truman the guessing gets harder. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will probably miss out, since giving him a degree would be a slap President Johnson's face. Rumor has it President Johnson will not get a hood from Harvard...
...Pole. So small (5 ft. 6 in., 138 lbs.) that he could barely see over the hood of his Dean Van Lines Hawk, Italian-born Mario Andretti, 26, averaged 165.8 m.p.h. to sew up the pole position. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1965 winner, came next with a clocking of 164.1 m.p.h. The once reliable Offenhauser engine, winner of 18 out of the last 19 500s, but consigned to oblivion after Ford swept the first four places last year, made its comeback-in the hands of Parnelli Jones, who clocked 162.4 m.p.h. A. J. Foyt was not ready...