Word: niki
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blur against the blue, a waft of 500-h.p. combustion that arrives on the ebb of a parabolic whine. Screeching through a U-turn, the car speeds toward Ocean Boulevard. Seconds ahead of a pack that includes the cars of Mario Andretti and Austria's Niki Lauda, the Ferrari roars down the main thoroughfare past three porno theaters, two derelict hotels and assorted pawnshops. It will be a long afternoon for 36-year-old Swiss Racer Clay Regazzoni. Another hairpin right will bring him back to the sea, and the hulking stern of the Queen Mary and a dozen...
...search committee comprised of Harvard coach Tom Sanders, Assistant Athletic Director Niki Janus, and Radcliffe co-captains Maude Wood and Sue Williams, was formed immediately to find a successor to McCarthy...
...Niki Janus, assistant director for athletics at Harvard explained. "The range is used by the Pistol Club and the Police as well as the Rifle Club. At this point, it is pretty shot up although we don't know by whom. The problem is one of controlling access. And of course making sure that conditions for shooting are safe...
...head for the Ferrari garage. Niki Lauda, their No. 2 driver, walks in and takes a Coke from the work-bench while fishing a long, black cigar from his pocket. With his jutting teeth and bulging fish-eyes, this pale, slightly stooped man appears to have been in his share of crashes. He is talking in a soft, imploring voice with his chief mechanic. Rumor has it Ferrari will sack him after this race, the season's finale. Though he has won two Grand Prix this year, he has also crashed twice while leading. As they converse, two sleek...
...have escaped Director John Gielgud is his cast. It may have been too herculean a task to tone down Maggie Smith. But Gielgud ought to have elicited something more from John Standing than a replica of a rubber duck. As for the two who play the marital also-rans, Niki Flacks and Remak Ramsay, they are a tribute to only one known art-taxidermy...