Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ball Special powered by a rear-mounted Offy. For patriots, unhappy that foreign "sporty car" drivers in foreign machines have won the last two 500s, there was California's Dan Gurney, who blasted his American Eagle around the track at a fantastic 167.2 m.p.h.-demolishing the four-lap record set last year by Mario Andretti. And; for aficionados of sheer daring, there was Andretti himself...
...easy way out," as its president Daniel B. Magraw '68 said the night before the vote. Magraw was sure that the committee would turn the changes down, and he was nearly equally sure that the committee would dump the business into his lap--a simple expedient with only three weeks of school left...
Harvard's final surge began with nine points in the two-mile. Scrappy Doug Hardin led the Crimson sweep and broke the back of Yale's Frank Shorter with a strong move into the wind with two laps to go. One lap remaining, Harvard's Jim Baker began to move on Shorter from 25 yards back. Surprisingly, Shorter dropped out, leaving Yale with no runners in the race, and no points...
...hour later, in the two-mile, Harvard completed its amazing shutout of the Princeton Big Three -- Endrikat, Andreini, and Ritchie Geisel. Hardin and Baker ran away from the field and Crimson sophomore Tim McLoone held off Geisel's third-place bid in the last lap, finishing 23 seconds behind Hardin's winning...
Last week the Vice President was on the last lap of his most delicate journey yet-a two-week tour of major European capitals to reassure continental statesmen that, despite its preoccupation with Viet Nam, the U.S. has not forgotten its transatlantic allies. The allies had a number of thorny issues to discuss-from Washington's proposed nuclear non-proliferation treaty with...