Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentimental favorites were the Italians, who finished one-two in Ferraris last year. They had sent a strong team, including World Champion Driver Alberto Ascari and Giovanni Bracco, winner of this year's famed Mille Miglia. But the betting favorites were the Germans and their hotshot Mercédès-Benz racers, which finished one-two in last summer's Le Mans 24-hour race. Headed by Engineer Alfred Neubauer, the Germans arrived weeks early with 24 mechanics and a truckload of spare parts, then drilled like a football team. Daily driving sessions were followed by nightly...
...Reader Shirey take heart. As a Phi Bete he might expect $5,141 (median earnings) a year; as a Hoosier, $5,176; as a campus hotshot, $4,775. As a social science major, TIME'S study indicated only that his tribe was increasing...