Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auto racers' superstition that green is the devil's own color on the track. With his John Zink Special, almost an exact copy of last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle-faced Flaherty, a truant from his Chicago taproom, felt sure that he had "the horses" to outrun his competitors. The trick was to stay in front of trouble...
...while Flaherty stayed out in front, where he had installed himself on the 76th lap (of 200). Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
...result, had an easy ride. Flaherty needed only two pit stops, averaged 128.49 m.p.h. for the 500 miles. Most important of all, his luck lasted. He swept past the checkered finish flag only 22 seconds ahead of Veteran Sam Hanks. And as he rode through one extra "insurance" lap, his throttle linkage snapped. Minutes earlier, the accident would have cost him the race...
...first lap of an exploration that will take him to Canada, Switzerland, Italy, West Germany and later on to Russia and Red China: Sukarno* (no first name), first President of the new Republic of Indonesia...
...business editor of the old Toronto World was fired for turning up tipsy one evening in 1910, the managing editor drafted his new secretary to put out the financial page. For the 22-year-old secretary, Arthur J. Trebilcock, the business editor's last lapse marked the first lap in a long financial career that reached its climax last week. After 20 years of running the Toronto Stock Exchange as executive manager, onetime Newsman Trebilcock, 67, became its first full-time paid president...