Word: offen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CARROLL SMITH OFFEN Atlanta...
...equipped with rubber sealers in their gas tanks, and drivers must make at least two stops for fuel-to keep pit crews from filling tanks to the brim, thereby increasing the danger of collision or fire. But as speeds soar at Indy, so do the risks. The sturdy old Offen-hauser-powered roadsters that once dominated the 500 have been largely replaced by light, rear-engined racers with massive Ford engines that generate 495 h.p.-v. 430 h.p. for the Offy. By week's end, 22 rear-engined entries had qualified for this year's race (v. only...
Jacques Offenbach's score for La Belle Helene has probably never been equalled by anybody except Offen-bach. It is "music so French," said James Agate, "that it needed a German Jew to write it:" irrepressible and irresistible music, subtly mischievous, knowing, deft, and inexhaustibly high-spirited. It alone is worth the price of admission to the Arts Center, which is very fortunate since it alone is nearly all that this venture has to recommend...