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Determined to appear at least, Clark persuaded BRM officials to lend him a backup three-liter that belonged to BRM's own racing team of Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart. Mechanics worked all night installing the engine in Jim's Lotus; the job was not completed until ten minutes before race time. With no chance to test the engine, Jim figured that his chances of winning-or even of finishing the 248-mile race-were about 1,000 to one. "It was 30 laps before I tried to put on any pressure to see what would happen...
...years. The needs are growing and the resources diminishing. The growth rate of the underdeveloped countries has already fallen from 5% a year in the last decade to 4% now. Tight money, high interest rates, inflation and payments deficits make it harder for the rich countries to lend to the poor...
...means designing and building with the utmost imagination and flexibility. Designers should think about school structures that can be readily changed from one type of instruction to another, structures with space that might be rented out for other than school purposes during low enrollment years, structures which lend themselves to expansion and to increasing integration with the community. To describe the general characteristics of the new construction, this section discusses the proposed Education Centers, but what is said should be applied, where relevant, to the new middle schools as well...
...occasion said imploringly, "Don't forget us." High on the priority list for presidential visits are 48 districts where freshmen Democrats who were swept into office in the 1964 landslide are struggling to keep constituents from reverting to their traditionally Republican voting ways. Johnson, for example, plans to lend a particular hand to Iowa's six Democratic Congressmen...
Leading performers get terribly emo tional about their instruments (which the manufacturers lend out for concert use in exchange for the prestige that the pianists bring). Glenn Gould always played Steinway's No. 174; when it collapsed some years back, he was thrown into a deep depression. Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Jacob Lateiner and Leon Fleisher at one time all craved Old 199, and they passed it around among themselves so that each could have it for major concerts. Dame Myra Hess used to think of her pianos as so many husbands, once cabled Steinway...