Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faded. In towns where Keating drew only 25 people, the former U.S. Attorney General pulled 2,000. In Buffalo, 100,000 turned out. Many were squealing teen-agers-but there were also throngs of voting-age women. In the background, a smooth, tough Kennedy machine worked like a greased piston. And the Johnson coattail helped. In upstate New York, where Republicans normally outvote Democrats two-to-one, Kennedy won half the votes and robbed Keating of a crucial 700,000-vote cushion he had counted on. Then in metropolitan Manhattan, Kennedy drop-hammered Keating with a 500,000 vote margin...
...m.p.h. in his green, Climax-powered Brabham, to beat Britain's Graham Hill by 41 sec.; at Rouen-Les Essarts. The Californian's victory was overshadowed, however, by the magnificent performance of Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 Grand Prix champion whose Lotus blew a piston on the pre-race practice lap. Running on only seven cylinders, Clark still leaped into the lead at the start, broke the track record four times, was 161 sec. ahead of Gurney when he had to quit after 30 of the 57 laps...
Alas, the poor airline passenger. He has to choose from a bewildering array of fares that on New York to Miami flights alone spread out to hundreds of different price possibilities, including piston day coach, jet night coach (rear end), businessman's special and economy prop. Last week it became evident that the fare confusion would get cloudier before it gets clearer...
...attempt a real symphony or concerto at every concert? Why not attempt a real piece of twentieth century music at every concert: not Frank Martin, Roberto Gerhard, Alberto Ginastera, or the diaper works of Piston, Prokofiev, and Bartok; but Schoenberg, recent Stravinsky, our own Kirchner. Of course these works are too hard for the orchestra; but the attempts would be worth much more than regurgitations--and bad regurgitations--of Mendelssohn and Faure...
...cheaper jets have allayed much of that fear. Many a president now believes that a rakish new jet is just what his company needs for greater mobility and smarter image. Now the executive jet is well on its way to gaining the acceptance already won by its piston-engine counterpart...