Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rural South, where every filling station harbors a budding pit crew and every stop sign is a potential starting line for an impromptu drag race, auto racing is a way of life. At the drive-in hamburger stands, kids who first soloed on John Deere tractors fuss over their souped-up cars and talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "camshaft durations." Their heroes are the stock-car drivers who ride the Grand National circuit, a highballing competition that first took hold in the 1950s. The king of the road then was Lee Petty, a lead-footed type who roared...
Race day in North Wilkesboro dawns gray and sullen. Heavy rains have turned the red clay infield into an axle-deep quagmire. At noon, ten Petty crewmen, proud as Praetorian Guards, push his glittering racer down pit lane for inspection. At 1:20 p.m. Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver...
Harvard's 6 ft. 6 in. senior forward James Brown will play in a New England All-Star basketball game next Tuesday which will pit the top university division players of the six states against the standouts of the college division. Proceeds of the game will go to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield...
...many of the G.I.s, the departure proved an emotional experience, carried out in the dark recesses of bars like Randy's Randa-Vous and the Snake Pit. "All my goodbyes are taken care of," said Army Specialist Four Nelson Coffey, 29, of Portageville, N.Y. "I've paid my girl friend's rent till the end of the month and given her a couple hundred piasters so she'll survive. I guess if she can't hook up with a civilian soon, she'll go back to the rice paddies...
...biggest negotiations of 1973 will pit the United Auto Workers against the Detroit car makers. Though contracts do not expire until September, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock began spelling out some demands late last month at a prebargaining convention in Detroit. Among them: a more generous cost-of-living escalator, some kind of profit-sharing plan, and by far the most important, a new right for workers to refuse to put in overtime. Heavy overtime has enabled a few workers to earn as much as $20,000 a year, but many complain that the long hours leave them too exhausted...