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...took Designer Chapman until last year to work the bugs out of his Grand Prix Lotus, with its rear-mounted Coventry Climax engine...
...local police were warned by a story in a Baltimore newspaper of the integration attempt, the demonstrators attempted to outflank the police by sending a token party to the front gate and deploying the main force to side and rear entrances...
...long before Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club opened, I received a telephone call from his secretary, asking me to translate a sentence into Latin for him. When she revealed his desire to emulate Horace and rear a lasting monument by putting on his door "If you don't swing, don't ring" in deathless Latin chased in metal, I explained in vain the impossibility of translating slang. So I came up with Si non oscillas noli tintinnare and forgot about...
...m.p.h. to find a car rolling over and over directly in front of him; swerving off the road to avoid a crash, Hill damaged his gearbox beyond repair. When the checkered flag finally fluttered, only 13 cars, out of 49 starters, were still running. And the winner was a rear-engined Ferrari, driven by Italy's Ludovico Scarfiotti and Lorenzo Bandini, who covered 2,832 miles at an average speed of 117.9 m.p.h. The next five cars were all Ferraris...
...learn his lesson. This time he was criticizing the civilian Pentagon's award of an $18 million contract to Bell Aerosystems Co. to build a plane (the X-22) that can take off and land almost vertically. The odd-shaped craft will have a 39-ft. rear wing, stubby forward wings and four 7-ft.-diameter propeller ducts that can be directed at the ground for vertical thrust. When horizontal, they will help push the plane to 350 m.p.h...