Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most exciting event of the day was the 600, billed as a two-man race between Yale's Mark Young -- the IC4A champ--and Cornell's speedster Bill Bruckel. On the last lap of the three-lap race, Young was leading with Bruckel and Harvard's Jeff Huvelle close behind...
...first Crimson contest of the year to go down to the last event--the two-mile relay. But even so, coach Bill McCurdy wasn't worried. He has one of the best relay squads in the country, and they responded well. Jeff Huvelle steamed home with a quarter-lap lead and knocked seven seconds off the old record with a time...
Speed in the trials is a far different thing from speed over 24 brutal hours of competition around a 3.81-mile track with 13 gear shifts per lap. Hardly an hour after the start, one of the Mark IIs turned into the pits with a ruined transmission. To their horror, Ford mechanics discovered that the output shaft had broken because the steel was improperly tempered-which meant that the shafts in all six company Fords were probably faulty as well, along with the nine replacements in the pits. Sure enough, one by one the other Fords dropped out. Finally...
...when they come out next fall. For the most part, changes from Haddon's original list (TIME, Dec. 9) were designed to meet engineering or economic practicalities. Under one preliminary requirement, for example, front-seat occupants were to have had across-the-chest shoulder harnesses along with the lap belts that all forward-facing passengers must have. Now convertibles will not have to have harnesses, since they lack the high doorposts necessary for attachment...
...needs of the industrial side of the military-industrial complex. Today, when the need for such trained personnel in industry has diminished relative to the need for them in the military, there is a move to abolish the deferment, to throw the less fortunate students into the army's lap...