Word: phil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whirled into the lead with his dark green Aston Martin, hoping to con the whole team of Ferraris into giving chase. Last year this stunt made wrecks of the bright red Italian cars; they burned out before they really got into the race. This year California's Phil Hill and his co-driver, Belgium's Olivier Gendebein, played it smart: they kept their 3-liter Ferrari well back in the pack. And they saw the field thin rapidly as they nursed their car along. Last year's winning Jaguars, their engines cut down to meet...
...after covering 2,549 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 106.21 m.p.h. He had beaten the second-place Aston Martin by 100 miles. If the worst weather and the worst track conditions in the memory of Le Mans veterans had kept him from a speed record, Phil Hill had still set a record with which he was more than satisfied. He was the first American ever to win les vingt-quatre heures...
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Richard McKown, a junior at Malden High School, won the event with a time of 47 minutes, 16 seconds. Phil Cohen, a student at M.I.T., finished second, five yards behind McKown. McKown pulled away from his opponent only in the last 30 yards of the race...
...Christian will not contain much that is new for those who have passed through the illuminating fires of Hum 5 or Phil 1b. But the apalling atavistic rites that drew earnest millions to Madison Square Garden last summer, and the pietistic claptrap emanating constantly from the White House indicate that Russell's rationalistic pamphleteering is still far from superfluous. Neither the great mass of people nor their highest leaders have evidently yet caught up with the thought of the eighteenth century. Russell performs a real service by reiterating the unrefuted arguments of Voltaire and Hume which, seemingly out of sheer...