Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wedding. Today, on his frequent romps up the California coast, Steve guns his Jag up to 140 and keeps it there. But he is more than a domestic menace. He is a big-league racing driver too. Like Stirling Moss, he was once a paid member of the British Motor Corp.'s racing team...
...property is a fishpond with a little waterfall. The sound of the waterfall is picked up by a microphone and piped into the house; the owner likes to sleep to its music. In back of the house is a 25-ft. flagpole hooked up to a motor with a photoelectric cell. When the sun rises over the Arizona desert, its light activates the cell, which sets off the motor-and up to the top of the pole runs Old Glory. At sunset, the flag automatically comes down...
...York harbor sailed Holland-America's liner Rotterdam, carrying nearly 700 notables on a sort of floating crap game to benefit the American Cancer Society. With tickets sold at $125 to $750 apiece-and "gamblers" paid off in donated minks, diamonds, motor scooters and other goodies-the take was upwards of $123,000. But all-at-sea was the place to be for such socialites as Governor and Mrs. Rockefeller and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (see THE NATION). An eye-catcher even in that company was svelte Shipmate Gloria Lee Barrie, 35, whose husband George, 49, president...
Peabody, however, will climb into the fourwheeled pleasure carriage instead of the more conventional Cadillac limousine. He will be accompanied in the cart by his military aide, but other members of the Governor's immediate staff will trail in motor-driven automobiles...
Each asphalt-covered brick at Indianapolis' Motor Speedway is a tombstone for a dream-the kind of dream that makes men recite the words on the Statue of Liberty and sing paeans to the New York Mets. For the Brickyard is the place where the underdog never wins...