Word: literates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford runaway was too much for Ferrari. Still smarting over last year's debacle, the "Monster of Maranello" entered three cars in last week's 35th 24 Hours: brand-new, 330 P4 prototypes, little hand-tooled bombs that weighed only 1,875 Ibs., were powered by 4-liter,450-h.p. engines, and could nudge 200 m.p.h. on Le Mans' Mulsanne Straight. Unfortunately for Enzo, Ford had a better idea: a new prototype of its own, called the Mark IV, that carried a 7-liter engine and 500 horses under its hood. In pre-race trials, Ferrari mechanics...
...alliances has produced more relaxation almost everywhere. Instead of hacking about the glorious revolution, writers are turning to subjects that range from black humor to dadaism-and the regimes are increasingly helpless to stop the flow. For anyone who doubts the trend, the Czechoslovak Communist Writers' Union weekly Literárni Noviny (Literary News) last week completed the final installment of an eleven-part series. Its title: "God Is Not Completely Dead...
...home incentive pay, family allowance and a variety of other fringe benefits that boost their average income to between $4 and $7 a day. Their paychecks stretch a long way. Rent seldom comes to more than $40 a month. Potatoes cost 3? a lb., bread 7?, wine 12? a liter...
...cost up to $100,000 to build, and as much again to maintain for a single racing season. Twelve feet long and elegantly slender, they look like bright green, blue, red, purple dragonflies perched on fat black feet. Though the cars weigh a mere 1,100 Ibs., their three-liter engine develops more than 375 h.p., and they can dart down a straightaway at better than 200 m.p.h. At full bore, a Formula One handles so neurotically that in all the world of motor racing only 20 men are fully qualified to drive...
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...