Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...franchises for carefully selected goods. I have already closed two big deals, and am continually getting more offers." Projects pending include a book and film based on the Chichester exploit. Sir Francis stands to come out decidedly in the black from the perilous 28,500-mile voyage, whose second lap ended, after 119 days, in the red glow of sunset in Plymouth harbor to the cheers of 250,000 assembled Britons...
...were already on their way home by the time last week's Indy 500 reached the 492-mile mark could hardly be blamed, of course. One by one, they had seen most of their favorites fall by the wayside: Graham Hill, the 1966 winner, out on the 24th lap with a sick piston in his Lotus-Ford; Mario Andretti, the speediest qualifier at 168.9 m.p.h., out on the 59th lap when his Brawner-Ford threw a wheel on the No. 3 turn; Dan Gurney, the second fastest qualifier (at 167.2 m.p.h.), black-flagged on the 161st lap with...
...strategy, as it turned out, worked perfectly-but not until Foyt had just about given up hope. "I thought the turbine would be out of business within 300 laps," he said later. "When the darn thing was still going by then, I figured Parnelli had won." Then came Lap 197. Just eight miles from the finish, a $6 ball bearing failed inside Jones's gearbox. Into the pits went Parnelli, and into the lead went Foyt. Victory was just around the corner. Or disaster. Sweeping through the last turn and into the main straightaway, Foyt was only yards from...
...well aware that the Arab world is badly fragmented and that Israel's finely honed army could turn back anything less than a concerted assault by all of its neighbors. In this situation, Johnson's strategy is to leave the problem in the U.N.'s lap for as long as possible in the hope that Egypt will somehow find a way to disimpale itself from its own hook...
Still smarting from last year, when an oil leak forced him out of the race on the 27th lap, Andretti watched Gurney break his record, cracked: "It's nice to have something to shoot at"-and tramped on the throttle of his 500-h.p. Dean Van Lines Hawk-Ford. Shooting for 170 m.p.h., Mario came enticingly close-169.7 m.p.h.-on the third of four qualifying laps. Too enticingly. "Let me tell you, that fourth was one thrilling lap," he said later. "I lost it in the No. 1 turn, got straightened out in No. 2, then lost it again...