Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven cylinders instead of eight) and a third in the U.S. (dead battery on the starting grid). But he won in The Netherlands with the wrong tires and in France with a rough engine, steered to victory in Belgium with one hand, using the other to hold his slipping shift lever safely in fifth. All told, Jim won seven Grand Prix, equalling Alberto Ascari's 13-year-old record. He would have won the Indianapolis 500 besides, if officials had followed their own rules and black-flagged Parnelli Jones, whose Offenhauser was leaking oil all over the track...
Despite the dominance of large corporations, increasing competition, and a tax structure that takes as much as 70% of income, it is still easier to make a million in the U.S. than anywhere else. Reasons: a rapidly changing American technology, the shift to a service economy, and the insatiable appetite for new and better ways of doing things. Says Arthur Decio, 34, president of Indiana's Skyline Homes Inc., who rode the mobile-home boom to a personal fortune of more than $5,000,000: "It's easier to get ahead than it was 15 or 40 years...
...embassy in Berne, Switzerland, where he formally renounced the U.S. citizenship he has held since he was naturalized in 1947. He retains Swiss citizenship now, with his wife Doris and daughter Victoria, who do not qualify to become U.S. citizens since they live abroad. Some people thought the shift would ease his tax burden, but Yul said that he gave up U.S. nationality merely to normalize his family life...
...with lots of dots . . . stretching . . . them out, and plenty of italics and exclamation points break ing them up, and anatomical words like glutei maximi, and funny-paper words like Pow! and crazy brand names and run-on lists of things - all cascading out of the . . . hottest . . . Royal Supermatic Floating Shift typewriter around...
...Americans owns stock today v. one in 16 in 1952. The number of stockholders in the past three years climbed by 3,100,000, despite the market break of 1962, and the ranks of mutual-fund holders increased 48% , to 3,200,000. Reflecting the nation's westward shift, California replaced New York as the state with the largest number of shareholders. Cities of under 25,000 population have the fastest-growing number of shareholders, minors are the fastest-growing age bracket in stock ownership (total: 1,280,000 owners), and housewives are the largest group...