Word: oval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other drivers gunned their racers to the start of the 267-mile race. A crowd of nearly 50,000 packed grandstands and bleachers, and pressed against the wire fences at the edge of the 6.2-mile course that winds through a boomerang-shaped road circuit and a broad speed oval. They had come to see the five blood-red Italian Ferraris-all but one members of Enzo Ferrari's superb factory team. When the cars went off, Von Trips quickly faltered and fell behind. He had a history of first-lap trouble; fellow racers said...
...recent occasion, turning to a nonplussed dinner guest to demand a listing of the world's 15 most beautiful women. But such respites are brief, and there is always the return to Washington and the job. There, behind the closed doors of the big oval office, Jack Kennedy works and paces in the loneliness that only a U.S. President can know...
State Department Building. At 4:50 o'clock that afternoon. President Kennedy was back in his oval office, talking to aides, when Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy walked in with a yellow-slip of Teletype paper bearing the report, which had just been verified by the Central Intelligence Agency. Then, still two hours before the Soviet Union officially announced that it planned to resume atomic testing. John F. Kennedy began to plan about meeting Russia's latest brazen threat in the cold...
Study in Contrasts. Sitting around a huge oval table in the Federal People's Assembly as they listened to the speeches, the delegates presented a sharp study in contrasts. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was grave, aloof, sad-eyed, a figare out of the past. Some were old antagonists: Ethiopia and Somalia have been squabbling over borders for years. Some were mint-new friends: Nasser and Tunisia's Bourguiba met at Belgrade, having patched up their bitter, four-year-old quarrel. Even in their approach to the cold war, the delegates sharply differed: U.A.R.'s Nasser...
...Aching with the muscular miseries early in the season. Trotter Harlan Dean came from behind in both heats to win the Hambletonian. Kentucky Derby of harness racing, on the concrete-hard clay oval at Du Quoin, Ill. With Driver Jimmy Arthur in the sulky, the three-year-old colt set a record with a combined clocking of 3:57! in the two heats. Harlan Dean's purse...