Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce stalled in a Manhattan traffic jam on-of course-the upper East Side; the doctor, who arrives on horseback, swaddles the infant in a fresh copy of the New York Times, then bundles it in a mink lap robe...
...seem likely to get. The starter's flag had barely fluttered at last week's 273-mile Grand Prix of France before Clark's green-and-yellow Lotus shot into the lead. Roaring down Reims's long straightaway at 180 m.p.h., Clark set a new lap record of 131.147 m.p.h., and coasted across the finish line more than 1 min. ahead. The victory, Clark's third in 22 days, ran his season's point total to 27,* and gave him a virtual hammerlock on the 1963 Grand Prix championship...
...field, he shares his tent with three officers and four enlisted men. They mess together around a campfire, sing sad Laotian songs or dance the graceful lamvong, while Kong Le, holding two pet hamsters in his lap, looks on. His possessions are few: a desk, a footlocker, a transistor radio (gift from the U.S. ambassador), and five locked briefcases, which he keeps under his bunk. Occasionally he unlocks one to take out not confidential papers but a handkerchief and a pair of socks, and then carefully relocks...
...Octavian, Lepidus) master of the Roman world. Antony (Richard Burton) is allotted the East, and Cleopatra's reveries of empire revive. She amorously regales him on her gilded barge, and the charms that captivated a cerebral Caesar enslave the sensual Antony the old war dog degenerates into a lap...
...Graham Hill: the 195-mile Grand Prix of Monaco, deftly guiding his B.R.M. around the twisting, hilly course at a record average speed of 72.4 m.p.h. The 1962 world racing Champion, Hill was trailing the Lotus of Scotland's Jimmy Clark by 25 sec. on the 79th lap when Clark was forced out with a jammed gearbox. The victory was worth nine points toward Hill's second straight Grand Prix title. > Brazil's basketball team: the world championship, for the second time in a row, with an 85-81 victory over the U.S. in the final game...