Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...untracked in 1964-at Indianapolis as well as on the Grand Prix circuit. Last year's Indy 500 was the bloodiest in years, with two drivers dead, five injured in a fiery crash on the second lap. Clark missed that by being ahead of the pack. But speed did him no good when the tread peeled off a tire at 150 m.p.h. and the left rear wheel of his Lotus collapsed. Old Indy hands had to admire the way the "sporty-car" driver from Scotland held his bucking car steady and braked it to a stop on the infield...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 28: the 10,000-meter run in 28 min. 14 sec., snipping 1.6 sec. off his own world record; on the famed track at Turku, Finland. Outdistancing a pack of Finnish runners, Clarke finished without his usual sprint, leading observers to believe that the intense Aussie can run still faster...
Doting Benefactor. Wagner had other troubles. A republican revolutionary, he was forced to flee Germany in 1849 and was subsequently hounded across Europe by a pack of creditors. His deliverance came in 1864-seven years after he had started work on Tristan-when Ludwig II was crowned king of Bavaria. An effeminate, blue-eyed, ethereally handsome lad who was Wagner's most ardent admirer, Ludwig, then 18, dispatched an emissary to track down his idol, finally discovered the composer holed up in an attic room of a hotel in Stuttgart...
...officials assume that the planes are Russian-piloted and represent Moscow's fulfillment-along with three antiaircraft missile sites under construction near the capital-of Premier Aleksei Kosygin's February pledge to give material aid to Ho Chi Minh. The Ilyushins are slow (580 m.p.h.) and they pack a light bomb load; still they could reach South Viet...
Liberals fret about De Saint Pierre's bestselling (200,000 copies) polemical novel The New Priests, which lampoons the experiments of Paris' young missionary priests. Abbe Georges Michon-neau, pastor of St. Jean near Montmartre, charged De Saint Pierre with throwing "priestly entrails to the pack of dogs who will buy your book and feast on them...