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Word: racer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Peter Jeffrey Revson, 35, American international road racer; while test driving his Formula I UOP Shadow at the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg, South Africa. A wealthy playboy-he was recently linked with Marjorie Wallace, the dethroned Miss World titleholder-Revson was more than a dilettante motorist. He was runner-up at the Indianapolis 500 in 1971 and won the British Grand Prix in the same year. His most recent major victories were the British and Canadian Grand Prix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1974 | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

Unfortunately for the competitor, bicycle racing is an expensive sport. The initial investment for a bicycle runs into the hundreds of dollars. Unless a racer is very good, and able to find sponsors or support himself from prizes, he will have continuing expenses for tires and other repairs. Because the popularity of bicycling has blossomed in the past few years, it is possible that sponsors will be easier to find. At present the finances of racing are still tight...

Author: By David J. States, | Title: Bicycling: The People's Transportation | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

There are a couple of things to remember about the old lady's whims. One, she enjoys surprising people more than anything else in this world or the next. She is a great educator: the cards she deals out have led ski racers into fixes they never could have imagined had they not experienced them. Second, her forte is comedy, but no one should underestimate her ability to play any role. At the NCAAs last year she donned a tragic mask on an icy gray morning during practice for the downhill. Mickey Cochran, special coach of the Vermont team, could...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

Carter expects Finnegan and perhaps Peter Dillon and Tony Leggett to place in up-coming Williams and Middlebury carnivals, but no one should expect to catch champion Darthmouth. The Big Green won their own carnival without America's top cross-country racer, Tim Caldwell, who was with the national team during last weekend's romp...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 2/12/1974 | See Source »

...expression later in the decade. Here in '62, though, before the assassination, the experience of the civil rights movement, the Beatles and the war consciousness, the energy was bottled. The inhibitions of the fifties were so constraining that there wasn't much to do but hop into your drag racer and drive around, going nowhere, burning energy. When the film focuses on the hot rods, the rock and roll and the cheeseburgers, then it is getting at forces operating behind a generation teetering on the brink of a changing world...

Author: By Emily Fisher and Richard Turner, S | Title: Thank You Richard Nixon: Ten Movies | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

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