Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powered by 4-liter,450-h.p. engines, and could nudge 200 m.p.h. on Le Mans' Mulsanne Straight. Unfortunately for Enzo, Ford had a better idea: a new prototype of its own, called the Mark IV, that carried a 7-liter engine and 500 horses under its hood. In pre-race trials, Ferrari mechanics watched disconsolately as four Mark IVs lapped the 8.3-mile track at better than 144 m.p.h., hitting speeds as high as 215 m.p.h. on the straight. The best any of the P4s could muster was a 142-m.p.h...
...same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough to pre-empt center stage at bourbon-and-bull sessions with Yale's faculty and students. An ear-wearying public speaker whose official utterances are frequently pedantic and dull, Brewster shines wittily in small groups, admits that conversation rather than ivory-tower concentration provides most of his ideas. "I get more stimulation...
Snarling Lessons. Tors's way with the wild began in Budapest, where he studied zoology as a pre-med student. He came to Hollywood as a screenwriter in 1940, but it was not until the mid-1950s, while filming a sea-horse opera called Sea Hunt, that he became impressed with the good manners of the sharks: he visited them in their underwater sets almost daily, was never once attacked. Convinced that the killer image of the shark, as well as that of other animals, was based on fear and prejudice, Tors became a full-time student of animal...
...experiment was not continued this year and the impetus for student-directed innovation in the pre-clinical years seems to have died. Instead, a faculty committee has taken up the broader question of curriculum reform and has issued recommendations which could dramatically reshape the Medical School system...
...shortening time horizons in a different direction, sought to heighten the quality of sensual and mental experience with hallucinegenic drugs or marijuana. Their drug-taking was often seen as a form of escaping or opting out of the system. But most of those who experimented with drugs--and itwas pre...