Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parnelli Jones is 35, and married to a beautiful young thing who goes to races with him. He won the Indianapolis 500 in 1963, and he owns the car that Al Unser put on the pole this year. He is a fairly wealthy man now, and he races only when...
This year's practice and qualifications have been dominated by Al Unser, the youngest brother of the 1968 winner. Unser broke his leg in a motorcycle accident last spring, and missed Indy, and many of the following races on the USAC championship trail. He won several races late in the...
Saturday afternoon, shortly after the checkered flag falls at Indianapolis, car owners Roger Penske and Parnelli Jones, along with drivers Mark Donohue, Peter Revson, George Follmer, and Dan Gurney, will board Roger Penske's Lear jet, and fly to an airport near Concord. New Hampshire. The next day they will...
Take last week. By the standards of October 1929, or even May 1962, nothing overly dramatic happened. Trading was light to moderately heavy, ranging daily between 6,650,000 and 14,570,000 shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Yet by Thursday afternoon the barometric Dow-Jones industrial average...
Investors have heard such talk many times before in the past 18 months. In that time the Dow-Jones has fallen 283 points, or 29%, and a staggering $250 billion has been erased from the paper value of stocks listed on the New York and American exchanges. In both length...