Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before last week's 24-hour Daytona Continental road race even ended, a group of grim-faced Ford Motor Co. officials boarded a plane for Detroit, carrying a dozen battered 14-inch rods of steel. The rods were power output shafts for the transmissions of six 490-h.p. Mark II racers that Ford had entered in the season's first big sports-car race-with high hopes of retaining the world manufacturers' championship it had wrested away from Italy's Enzo Ferrari last year with victories at Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans. Ford had earmarked...
...Long Road. Onscreen, Caine's impact seems half visceral, half sociological. He is professionally at home in such separate skins as those of an Establishment army officer or a U.S. Southerner, but his soul seems to belong to his working-class roles. He is that new hero, the chap who is supposedly above class-but if he really is, why does he keep aggressively displaying his non-U traits and compulsively needling Old Blighty's oldest values? With Caine, all this springs from something deeper than dialogue and technique, as does his mock-deadly appeal to women...
...Harvard basketball team, hoping to find the road out of the Ivy cellar, tangles with third place Yale and co-cellar dweller Brown at the IAB this weekend...
...speech which represents an expression of American policy, that all elements should be invited to participate in the future of their country. And I still don't see how that could be accomplished when it would be done by force of arms, because that's not the road to peace, that's the road to the continuation of the conflict, and all of our energies as peace-loving people ought to be directed towards a pacification of the South...
...statements here early this week Ambassador Goldberg emphasized that negotiations will provide the only road to a peace America desperately wants. Both Hanoi and Moscow have made it increasingly clear in past weeks that if the United States were to halt its air raids north of the 17th parallel some sort of peace talks could be initiated...