Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...axes-maneuvers that could fix its attitude in space. By working both controls simultaneously, Schirra was able to make his spacecraft respond as smoothly as a trained seal. Stafford, meanwhile, was busy with a circular slide rule and a heavily crosshatched plotting chart in his lap, checking the on-board computer's data and relaying information to Mission Control...
...course started at Dillon Fieldhouse with a lap around the tennis courts, and then followed the long perimeter of Soldier's Field. At the first half-mile, several runners began to straggle, but most pressed on, and 93 heroes managed to finish...
...Fred Lorenzen, 30: the accident-marred, $65,000 National 400 auto race, averaging 119 m.p.h. in his 1965 Ford; at Charlotte, N.C. A five-car pile-up on the first lap cost the life of Driver Harold Kite, and only 18 of the 44 starters were still around at the end. Lorenzen made his move on the 216th lap (out of 267), dueled bumper to bumper for the next 45 laps with A. J. Foyt, took the lead for keeps when Foyt clipped the wall at 125 m.p.h.-only nine miles from the finish...
...Britain's Graham Hill, 36: the U.S. Grand Prix, on a rain-slicked, 2.3-mile circuit that held his B.R.M. racer to a relatively slow 107.98 m.p.h. average; at Watkins Glen, N.Y. One of the early dropouts (only three of 18 cars lasted the full 110 laps) was World Champion Jimmy Clark, whose engine started acting up in the fifth lap, leaving the rest of the race to Hill, who, despite one scary 100-m.p.h. spinout on a curve, managed to set a 115.16 m.p.h. lap record on the way to his third straight victory at the Glen...
...Wash a Day. Most of the longhairs can be parted into two groups-the "greasers" and the "surfers," sometimes known as "soshs" (pronounced so-shhs). Greasers knead their locks with greasy kid stuff, then comb it back into long waves that lap against their collars. Surfers achieve a wind-blown effect by constant washing-sometimes every day. They either let their locks dangle just above their eyebrows, a la Prince Valiant, or sweep them back over one side of the forehead into the "frat" look. Because the resulting bang usually slips down to cover one eye, many fraters develop...