Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jaguar, a Ferrari Testa Rosa, and a Chicane obstacle strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand-and a railroad crossing where a train can mash risk-takers...
Unknown Perils. Says his friend Eugene F. O'Neill, boss of Bell Laboratories' Telstar program: "Here he had this incredible project dropped in his lap. It was like being asked to navigate for Christopher Columbus. He kept asking how he could live with himself if he turned it down. In the end, it was his desire to push back the boundaries that prevailed. He has a streak of romanticism, religion, patriotism. He is not the cold, calculating type." So Brainerd Holmes sold his Moorestown, N.J., home, moved his family (wife and two teen-age daughters, Dorothy, 17, Katherine...
Five seconds to air time. "Untie your shoes and loosen your girdles," says the portly announcer, drawing a laugh. Then Don McNeill steps out on the stage and shoves the announcer into the lap of a giggling matron in the front row. In the burst of laughter, the band strikes up, and everybody in the Fountain Room at Chicago's Sherman House Hotel rousingly sings: "Good morning, breakfast clubbers, Good morning...
...Freeman was trying to lay this burden on Republican doorsteps, another turned up in his lap: two more suspensions of minor Agriculture officials came to light. The men were office managers for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service-the agency embroiled in Billie Sol's fraudulent cotton-allotment dealings. They were ousted in connection with $28,000 worth of illegal rice-allotment sales in Texas' Brazoria and Matagorda counties over the past three years. Both cotton and rice allotments are valuable, since without them farmers are subject to unprofitably stiff penalties for planting and marketing-but their sale...
...average speed of 115.268 m.p.h. during the long day and night's racing over the 8.3-mile circuit 117 miles southwest of Paris. Sharing his seat with Belgian Co-Driver Olivier Gendebein, Hill was in easy command for most of the race, at one point set a new lap record of 126.750 m.p.h. for the course, then settled down to nurse a sick clutch, which meant driving in fourth gear for the last six hours. At the finish. Hill's nearest competitor was five laps and 42 miles behind, giving the U.S. driver his third Le Mans victory...