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...then Gurney, taking it cool, slipped into sixth position in a Lotus-Ford. The qualification runs go on until this week, when the top 33 cars are chosen to compete on Memorial Day. There is always a chance that someone with a hot engine, front or rear, will rack up an even more spectacular time. Offy itself, after a year of experimenting, has a rear-mounted engine, and 14 of the 61 entries at Indianapolis were running with Offies behind. But they seemed far slower than the Fords, and the best a rear-mounted Offy could do by week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Ford on the Pole | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...bounced out. In every case, their grades make sense, as a measure of innate ability, cleverness, or writing skill. A bad mark is a slap in the face. If they are in A-1 condition on exam day, or hit on a really neat trick, they can pretty certainly rack up. They can tell whether they have pulled it off from the moment they finish writing. When a student Scoffs and succeeds, like Hud, the A's are flourished as proof of his innate superiority; when a student Scoffs and fails, he becomes the town...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: On Handling Academia: Strive, Scoff, or Skip | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

Allen beat Lynch in the 440-intermediates last month, but the Crimson sophomore has improved since then and now rates the second choice in the event behind Penn's Ken Reynard. A big boost for the Crimson will come if rejuvenated senior Jack Spitzberg can rack up some hurdle points...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: TRACKMEN BATTLE NAVY FOR HEPS CROWN | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...this seems to help: he has built Maremont's sales from $30 million in 1959 to $122 million last year. Last week he capped a five-year diversification program by buying the Cal-Val Research & Development Corp., a California producer of giant shock absorbers and bomb-rack parts for the Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: A Man of Many Parts | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...million strong, has quadrupled in 30 years. But even second-generation city dwellers seem restless, disconnected from their environment and one another. Amid jostling, unsmiling crowds on the streets, in bookstores where the buyer cannot browse, in restaurants where the customer is as insignificant as a hat rack, life in the capital has a disordered, rough-edged, strangely impersonal quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Tomorrow Is Three Suits | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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