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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With its little 2.2-liter engine, the Porsche 907 is a 270-h.p. midget compared with the seven-liter, 500-h.p. Ford Mark IV prototype that averaged a record 135.4 m.p.h. at Le Mans last year. But it is a muscular midget-durable, exceptionally nimble in the turns, capable of straightaway speeds up to 175 m.p.h. And this year, with prototypes restricted to engines under three liters in displacement, it does not have to try to keep pace with far bigger Fords and Ferraris...
Ironically, Mercedes has also been getting a lot of speed from its go-slow policy of production, which has never quite matched demand. A big item in its current surge is its Model 250 sedans, which boast 2.5 liter engines and price tags of $4,000 and up. Introduced in early 1966, the popular 250 drew a two-year order backlog. That has kept production humming while competitors like Volkswagen have been forced to cut back...
...expelled from the party Novelist Ludvik Vaculik, 41, Playwright Ivan Klima, 36, and Critic Antonin J. Liehm for "attitudes incompatible with party membership," 2) purged Novelist Jan Procházka, 38, of his alternate membership on the Central Committee for "mistakes in his literary activities," and 3) placed Literární Noviny, the weekly journal of the Czechoslovakian Writers' Union, under the Ministry of Culture for "becoming the platform for political views opposite to the Czech Communist Party...
...piston gas engine consisting of a three-cornered rotor that swirls in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight. Doing away with the stop-and-start movements of the piston engine saves valuable power for a continuous circular movement. The RO 80 will feature two half-liter engines, placed side by side, yet even this will only take up half as much space as a conventional motor of equal power and weigh about two-thirds as much...
...ever since he began racing for Italy's Enzo Ferrari in 1958. Shelby and Gurney pooled their savings, founded a firm called All American Racers Inc., opened a factory in Santa Ana, Calif. Working with Britain's Weslake Development Co., they produced a brand-new, three-liter engine-a tiny 400-h.p. V12-and a chassis to match. Built largely of magnesium and titanium, the whole car weighed only 1,185 Ibs. The project, of course, was painfully expensive. In all, Gurney and Shelby built four Formula I American Eagles in Santa Ana, at an average cost...