Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After bringing up the rear on the first trip around the 220-yard Barton Hall oval, Hewlett moved up fast on the second lap and too over the lead at the quarter-mile mark. He toyed with Navy's Greg Williams for the next mile and won going away...
...good to see that the auto industry is at last making seat belts standard equipment for both front and rear passengers [Feb. 19]. After years of seeking solid statistical proof of their value, I have found it: of 34 persons killed on the New Jersey Turnpike last year, not one was wearing a seat belt. There is something else the automakers should do: place the ignition switch and the emergency brake near the middle of the dashboard, so that a front-seat passenger can reach them in case the driver is incapacitated. GILBERT CANT New York City...
Starting May 1, Moorer will succeed retiring Admiral Harold Page Smith. Taking over Moorer's job as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, will be Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, 58, who, in turn, will give up his Seventh Fleet command to Rear Admiral Paul P. Blackburn, 56, the senior member of the United Nations Military Armistice Commission in Korea...
...slipstream only inches behind. "I had just about 6 ft. between me and the wall," Lorenzen said later. "All of a sudden, we ran into hard rain; Panch started around me on the outside, and we really connected. My right front fender smacked the wall. Then my right rear smacked the wall and straightened me out. Good thing too. I was doing about 165 m.p.h...
...School. Under usual circumstances, the occasion would not have attracted much more than academic interest. But the huge and starkly modern university auditorium was packed with 3,000 students and a detachment of journalists, who filled every seat, sprawled in the aisles and stood pressed tightly together in the rear. They exchanged loud jokes with Lecturer Giscard. When he mentioned Rueff, they blended boos with applause. They cheered enthusiastically when he spoke in passing of Yale's Robert Triffin, a leading exponent of building on the current monetary system of gold, dollars and pounds...