Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead. "We kept expecting mechanical trouble," Gurney said later, "but it never came. The Ferraris were no real threat." With Foyt at the wheel, the first man ever to win at both Indy and Le Mans, No. 1 merely coasted across the finish line, 32.5 miles ahead of the pack. In 24 hours, Gurney and Foyt had covered 3,251 miles at a record average speed of 135.4 m.p.h.-10 m.p.h. faster than the old mark set by last year's winning Ford Mark II. In the winner's circle, Gurney sprayed champagne on Henry Ford...
...Roll Out the Barrel, a toy the girls covet. At his dwelling-the abandoned Hotel Ozone-the old lady enjoys one final, dreamlike dinner by candlelight. Then she dies, knowing that the race will die with her and with the girls she has overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down like an animal and resume their aimless journey. Director Jan Schmidt has given Ozone the spare style of a Kafka fable, abetted by Poničanov...
...long they can stay under. Conventional compressed-air breathing units, which weigh 36 Ibs., are generally exhausted after one hour. Soon, according to this month's Skin Diver magazine, aquanauts will be able to submerge for six or even eight hours at a time with a back pack that weighs only half as much as usual...
...force shall only force them to be free"), while a mounting crisis in Vietland underscores the play's domestic spectacle. And the New Left (personified in the three witches, a New Negro, and old Wobbly and an audacious little coed) is damned along with the rest of the pack interested only in social disorder ("Bubble and bubble, toil and trouble, / Burn Baby Burn and caldron bubble...
...camping, it's the traveling," explained Connecticut's Earl Ferrin, father of three. "We couldn't afford it using motels." Ferrin, who had not camped a day in his life until last year, when he converted a 60-passenger school bus, is planning to pack his family along to Montreal's Expo 67 this summer...