Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rollover bar to the top of his Hudson Hornet. As it turned out, it saved his life. Hitting 85 m.p.h. on the straightaways of the Speedway's half-mile track before 10,000 racing fans, Flock was in second place behind Thomas when disaster struck. On the 163rd lap of the 100-mile race, Flock's rear axle broke. The right rear wheel went spinning into the infield, and the Hudson rolled over. Brother Fonty, one of the daredevil Flock family,* driving in third place, slammed to a stop and watched. Tim stepped out of the wreck, shaken...
...pass to Toluca, down to Mexico's farm belt and into the dry cactus plains, Italy's Bracco lengthened his lead over Kling to seven minutes, left the other two Mercédès half an hour behind. But on the afternoon lap of the next-to-last day, Bracco's luck finally ran out. The clutch of the Ferrari burned out, and the Italian watched in helpless rage as the three Mercédès-Benzes roared...
...final day was a Mercédès parade. Veteran Kling drove his lightweight (under 2,000 Ibs.) aluminum-bodied racer at a 160-m.p.h. clip over stretches of the final lap. Kling's overall average: 102 m.p.h., shattering the 1951 Ferrari record of 88.09 m.p.h. Hermann Lang, Le Mans winner, brought his Mercédès in second, followed by Luigi Chinetti in a Ferrari. The stock-car race was even more of a runaway for the 1953 Lincolns (see BUSINESS). The 205-h.p. Lincolns, mounting four-barrel carburetors and heavy-duty shock absorbers, were...
Last week, unable to finance the team for the remainder of the season, the Dallas owners dumped the whole mess back in the lap of N.F.L. Commissioner Bert Bell, who announced that the team would complete its schedule playing on the road. Texans who have been clamoring loudly for the transfer of a major-league baseball franchise (e.g., the St. Louis Cardinals) clearly had good reason now to restudy that project...
...Madonna is the head of his wife, Gala, gazing heavenward; her body is being reconstructed in a sunburst of softly colored atomic corpuscles. The body is still transparent and through it, Christ can be seen floating above an altar in a crystal cathedral. At the base of the altar lap the waters of Port Lligat, and rising out of them are huge rhinoceros horns...