Word: racers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tree. Actually, I thought he was a little too big, and I didn't quite approve of him." As Cloar portrayed him in 1955, his father is indeed as big as a tree, and he himself is a pouting boy in a soapbox racer looking for all the world as if Pa had broken a branch on him that...
...mosquito lights on the nearest creature for the blood meal she needs before she can lay her eggs. Dr. Gebhardt figured that the victim might be a snake just emerging drowsily from hibernation. Starting in 1961, he hiked miles through swamps and caught plenty of garter, gopher and blue racer snakes, but found virus in only...
...Holland's Zandvoort race track last week, made his way slowly to a sleek green-and-gold car sitting in the front row. Then, with a smirk at the astonished crowd, Jack Brabham dropped the cane, pulled off the whiskers, revved up the engine of his Brabham-Repco racer, and roared off to win the Dutch Grand Prix...
Died. Chuck Thompson, 54, ace speedboat racer who, in 30 years of piloting everything from outboards to 200-m.p.h., unlimited-class hydroplanes, had copped just about every prize in the sport except the biggest-the Detroit Gold Cup; of a crushed chest following the disintegration of his hydroplane while jockeying for position at 160 m.p.h. in the 58th Gold Cup race on the Detroit River, thus becoming the fourth hydroplaner to die in competition in two weeks...
Died. Giuseppe ("Nino") Farina, 59, Italian auto racer who in 1950 was the first driver to be named World Grand Prix champion, but is almost as well remembered for surviving countless accidents, including one grisly debacle in Argentina in 1953, when he swerved to avoid a wandering child only to cut down five people in the crowd; of injuries following the crash of his Ford-Cortina-Lotus while pleasure-driving in the French Alps near Chamb...