Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the winter months by about 40 Kurds and their flocks and herds. Last year Solecki became interested in the debris on the cave's floor. Back at Shanidar early this year, financed by a Fulbright grant and surrounded by fascinated Kurds, Archaeologist Solecki carefully dug a square shaft in the promising deposit. The top layers were modern. Just below, he found tools and fragments of pottery from the "historic period" when Shanidar belonged to the Persians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians or the Turks. Below this layer, metal relics gradually disappeared. Stone tools took their place, and the pottery...
...organized a digging party and cut a trench. In the center of the base of the mound, he found a caved-in shaft three yards in diameter. As the dirt that had fallen into it was carefully scratched away, treasure after treasure came to light...
John Cooper Fitch is a lanky, personable man whose only noticeable departure from the pattern of his age group (35) is a compulsion to go barreling down a highway faster than anyone else. Ever since he was old enough to tell a camshaft from a drive shaft, Johnny has been driving autos, preferably fast ones. Last week "Jean Feetch," as rabid French sports-car enthusiasts call him, was invited by Rootes, Ltd., makers of Britain's Sunbeam-Talbot, to drive in the Monte Carlo Rally, a 72-hour, 2,000-mile grind, as testing...
...chassis had to be designed, the production line altered to turn it out, and the assembly line rearranged for the whole car. There were more than 2,000 other engineering changes, and dozens of new problems to solve. Sample: the sports car was so low that the drive shaft went through the rear seat too close to the top to allow padding. Necessity produced an invention. The rear seat was divided, with a permanent arm rest in the center. Not for a year after the sports-car decision was made did the prototype come out of the factory...
Notably unsuperstitious in a game notorious for its fetishes, Mangrum concedes enough to tradition to attribute his latest streak to a new driver shaft, specially made for him: "It took me 15 years to figure out the best shaft for me, and I believe I finally have it.'' A better explanation is his own steady game, carefully modeled on the best points of the past masters: the booming woods of Sam Snead, the deadly accurate putts of Harry Cooper, the chip-and-pitch artistry of Johnny Revolta, the long irons of older brother Ray Mangrum...