Word: plymouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money on the Grand National circuit. and 65,000 were on hand for last week's Southern 500. The cars they saw whipping through Darlington's straightaways at speeds up to 155 m.p.h. were anything but stock. Hidden under the electric-blue hood of Petty's Plymouth Belvedere GTX was a 426-cu.-in. "hemi-head" racing engine that generated 520 h.p. and burned gasoline at the rate of a gallon every three miles. The car's exhaust system, brakes, ignition and suspension had all been rebuilt at the Petty garage in Level Cross. The interior...
Chrysler is also de-emphasizing basic design changes and making only minor adjustments in the Dodge Coronet and Plymouth Belvedere. An exception is the Dodge Charger, which has junked its fastback styling and taken on a pair of swept-back wings joining the roof to the rear deck. Plymouth will compete with the Tempest Le Mans and the Mercury Montego by offering a hopped-up Belvedere called the Road Runner. In the big-car field, Cadillac now boasts the largest engine in the industry, though its exterior remains virtually unchanged...
...move to get into high gear. Off the company's production lines in Kenosha, Wis., rolled the first Javelin specialty car, a handsome 1968-model entry that will put A.M.C. into the bustling youth market with such fast company as Ford's Mustang, Chevrolet's Camaro, Plymouth's Barracuda, Lincoln Mercury's Cougar and Pontiac's Firebird...
...about a quadruple redundancy? For a hint, Borgmann aims his reader toward southwest England. After a few dutiful hours of brain racking, it is permissible to turn to the answers in the back of the book. In The Story of English, writes Borgmann, Mario Pei mentions a ridge near Plymouth called Torpenhow Hill. "This name consists of the Saxon tor, the Celtic pen, the Scandinavian haugr (later transformed into how) and the Middle English hill, all four of them meaning hill. Hence the modern name of the ridge is actually Hillhillhill Hill...
...annual Harvard Summer School Tour to Plymouth and Falmouth will be held Sat., August 12. Tour includes stops at Plymouth Plantation, Mayflower II, and Falmouth Beach and a performance of Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium and The Telephone by the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Reservations and tickets at the Social Director's Office, 4 Matthews Hall...