Word: lotuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cracking a Ton. They got their answer. Strapping himself into a surgical corset, Jimmy slid gingerly into the cockpit of his rear-engined Lotus and roared around South Africa's East London race track at 100.10 m.p.h.-the first time anybody had "cracked a ton" (topped 100 m.p.h.) on the tricky, twisting track...
...before he shot into the lead. By the 13th lap, he was already lapping stragglers. Twice, he shattered the official track record, and on the 84th lap, he zipped around the 2.4-mile course in 1 min. 27.4 sec. to break it a third time-clocking 100.33 m.p.h. Smiled Lotus Designer Colin Chapman: "He must have an itch in his corset...
...Chariots. For all the local varieties of the Buddhist lotus, two divergent traditions are responsible for the stance of Buddhism in Asia today. The split goes back 2,000 years, and much of the original quarrel is lost in the misty past, though apparently it included some indelicate polemics over whether a monk's nocturnal emission constituted proof of an unredeemed lust. The main argument was really a conflict that sooner or later afflicts most religions: between the fundamentalists and the liberals...
...lead in the early laps of the Indianapolis 500 last May when he was forced out by mechanical difficulties, stoically predicted: "I'll get lucky one day-just you wait and see"; of burns suffered two weeks ago on a Phoenix test track when his Lotus-Ford crashed at 115 m.p.h. and exploded; in San Antonio...
Suddenly a shout went up. Clark was merely coasting. An oil line had snapped. The Lotus was out of the race -just two laps from victory. Now all Surtees had to do was finish second behind Dan Gurney. Ferrari mechanics frantically signaled Bandini to slow down. Obediently, Bandini lifted his foot and Surtees shot past, crossing the finish line 69 sec. behind Winner Gurney...