Word: racer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rotund Andy Granatelli, chairman of STP Corp., has become one of television's most familiar-indeed, unavoidable-commercial pitchmen, touting his much criticized engine-oil additive as the "racer's edge." A little more than a week ago, Granatelli, 50, got the razor's edge when his board of directors abruptly cut him loose and replaced him with John J. Hooker Jr., entrepreneur and sometime politician. Hooker was hand-picked by Derald H. Ruttenberg, chairman of the widely diversified Studebaker-Worthington Inc., which owns a controlling interest in STP. The keenly publicity-conscious Granatelli was almost...
...Lange once had an offer from a professional car builder at $2,500. As for the rule that the boys must build their own cars, Lange said, "It is common knowledge that it is next to impossible for any eleven-year-old boy or girl to build a racer that...
...wire to a battery in the rear. The nose of each car lined up for the race rests flush against a hinged metal plate that drops forward into the asphalt at the start, allowing the vehicle to roll forward down the inclined raceway. As he settled back into his racer, Gronen's helmet touched off a lever that activated the battery and magnet, and as the metal plate fell forward the magnet's pull toward it gave his vehicle enough extra starting impetus to win. If that weren't enough, it turns out that Gronen...
...Candidate. With Robert Redford. The movie is much like Downhill Racer: Redford spends it getting to the top, gets there and finds it a rather meaningless place. Coolidge Corner Theatre...
...resemble an automobile racer who sets off from Le Mans and gets farther and farther behind the other cars in every lap of the race," says retired Air Force General Paul Stehlin, now an anti-Gaullist Deputy in the National Assembly. "Under the most favorable hypothesis, by 1975 we will dispose of a nuclear capacity of around 30 megatons. The U.S. already boasts 30,000 and the U.S.S.R. perhaps...