Word: literates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power was his problem: the two-liter, 245-h.p. Coventry Climax engine in Clark's Lotus was no match for the bigger three-liter engines that his competitors were using this year. He spent most of the year trying to beg, borrow or buy a competitive engine. But for last week's U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, N..Y, the next-to-last race of the J966 season, Jim had a three-liter of his own-a 16-cylinder, 400-h.p. BRM. Then, in practice just a day before the race, his new engine broke down...
Brabham's victory in last week's Dutch Grand Prix was his third for 1966. It practically sewed up a third world title for the tall Aussie, and it came at the direct expense of Clark, who has been plagued by chronic mechanical failures in his 2.2-liter Lotus-Climax, has yet to win a race this season. Driving a more powerful (by 55 h.p.) 3-liter Brabham-Repco that he designed and built himself, Jack allowed Clark to take the lead, then forced such a fast pace that the cooling system in Jimmy's overworked Lotus...
...local bottlers around France. His most striking innovation was an automated $8,000,000 bottling plant, the most modern in Europe, built in 1963 on a canal north of Paris. There shifts of 90 men, working around the clock, turn out as many as 1,000,000 one-liter bottles of wine...
Keeping Track. The bulk wine arrives from southern France in barges or 40-tank-car trains, rests eight days in 1,000,000-liter tanks to let the sediment settle, then streams through stainless-steel mains to sterilized, electronically inspected bottles. They are automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not cork), stamped with labels, dropped twelve at a time into cases and conveyed to a mechanical loading dock. There a monitor at a control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother...
Endurance & Speed. Ferrari himself never goes to races, but twelve of his creations were entered in the Continental, including the car that won at Le Mans last year and a 1966 4.4-liter prototype. Then there was the homegrown Chevy-powered Chaparral II, which boasted such refinements as automatic transmission and a pedal-operated stabilizing fin. With Phil Hill, the ex-Grand Prix champion, at the wheel, the Chaparral turned in a 116-m.p.h. practice run, and more than one sportswriter picked...