Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Packard cut their work forces. Still unaffected are General Motors and Ford Motor Co., both of which are planning higher output of their cars in the first quarter of 1954 than in the same period of 1953. The Ford-Chevrolet race for supremacy appeared to be starting its second lap, and Buick, planning a 10% increase, was gunning for Plymouth's third position...
...have more crust than a Bowery mission pie. But some of the owners and waiters have worked out a defensive "treatment" for such diners. As soon as they hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room. Trying to ignore the snobbish glances from other...
...spectators who had rushed to help its occupants were killed by a second Ford, which came whipping around the blind turn. A bit later, near by, an Italian co-driver died under his Ferrari after it blew a tire and overturned. The survivors tore onward, and at first lap's end a record average speed of 94.86 m.p.h. was set by one of Italy's top drivers, Felice Bonetto, in a 245-h.p. Lancia. Other Italian-driven Lancias snorted in second and third...
Skidding Lancia. The second day's docket called for two laps, from Oaxaca over lofty, roller-coaster roads to Puebla (252.9 miles), then a short (79.5 miles), nightmare stretch girdling a volcano at a height of nearly two miles and then plunging in murderous curves down to Mexico City. Again the Lancias led the pack, and Italy's "King of the Mountains," Piero Taruff, relishing his favorite sort of terrain, hung up lap records of 88 m.p.h. on the long leg, 102.8 m.p.h. on the treacherous short one. Late that night, in a hospital far back...
Shortly after dawn of the third day, the horde thundered north again on the first of two laps, 261 miles over high mountain passes and through cloudswept valleys to Leon. Just before pulling out, Felice Bonetto, leading on total elapsed time, puffed a cigarette and jauntily observed: "I'll be driving in this race until I die." He died two hours later with a broken neck, when his Lancia skidded into a lamppost in the narrow-laned town of Silao. Italy's Humberto Maglioli, in a Ferrari, roared past Bonetto's body (still strapped to the driver...