Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential race may well be remembered as the campaign of the hecklers. Since there was little substantive debate on the great issues, the most striking phenomena were the boos and catcalls, four-letter words and shouts of "Sieg heil!" Hordes of hecklers dogged the trail of every candidate, punctuating their speeches with yells and raspberries...
...five-man school board, Berkeley last September began bussing 2,000 white elementary pupils out of wooded, hillside suburbs to once heavily Negro schools in the flatlands near San Francisco Bay. About 2,000 black children move in the opposite direction. Another 2,000 students of each race were shifted to other schools within walking distance of their homes. The aim of all the trans fers was to make sure that each of Berkeley's 14 elementary schools has between 36% and 45% black enrollment. This closely matches the city's racial composition, which is 41% Negro...
Every driver's dream is to build and race his own car. New Zealand's Bruce McLaren, 31, has carried that dream several fancies farther: practically everyone else is driving his cars too. In this year's six-race Canadian-American Challenge Series for Sports-Racing cars, 16 drivers in a field of 40-including McLaren and his countryman Denis Hulme, 32-are piloting sleek, slope-nosed McLaren-built machines. Last month, in the fourth race of the series at Monterey, Calif., McLaren cars swept the first six places, with Hulme finishing second and McLaren fifth. This...
Though the cars cost $40,000 to develop and build, they are paying rich dividends. In this year's first and third Can-Am races, at Elkhart Lake, Wis., and Edmonton, Canada, Hulme and McLaren drove to first-and second-place victories. In the Canadian race, both averaged over 100 m.p.h...
Hand and Foot. The son of an Auckland garage owner, McLaren started tinkering with cars at 15, after a horseback-riding injury ruled out the usual boyhood sports. That same year, he entered his father's Austin in a hill-climbing race and finished second in his class. By the time he was 21 he had established himself as his country's foremost driver; so off he went to Europe to try his hand and foot at big-time racing. For the next five years, he learned his craft as a member of the Cooper factory team, working...