Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winning car at Indianapolis is the one that combines top speed with a minimum time in the pits-a good pit crew can refuel and change all four tires in 30 seconds. For the past two years the winner has been the bright yellow, 380-h.p. Belond Special, designed, built and owned by Mechanic George Salih of Whittier, Calif. Salih took the standard four-cylinder Offenhauser engine used in most Indianapolis cars, installed it on its side at an 18° angle for cooler running and lower center of gravity. The idea was so successful that...
...Memorial Day, Bryan and the Belond could expect a stiff fight from the car with the fastest qualifying time: the Racing Associates Special, complete with cockpit built to the specifications of Driver Johnny Thomson, after an anthropologist took his measurements to determine the most comfortable driving position for a man of Thomson's size (5 ft. 7 in., 150 lbs.). Thomson's average qualifying speed: a hefty 145.908 m.p.h. Another advantage: he will start from the No. i pole position...
...history three vaulters cleared 15 ft. in the same event. Tied for first: Oklahoma State's Jim Graham and Aubrey Dooley (15 ft. 5 in.). Oklahoma's J. D. Martin, who vaulted 15 ft. 3¾ in., had to be content with third place. ¶ At a special meeting in Columbus, Ohio, baseball's big league club owners finally faced up to the fact that other cities are clamoring for major league franchises, declared they would "favorably consider" a third major league composed of "an acceptable group of eight clubs." Said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick: "I firmly...
...Commit addicts to the special hospitals for at least two months for medical (including psychiatric) treatment, vocational training, and rehabilitation. ¶ Keep discharged victims visiting the hospital's out-patient clinic for continued psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation; prescribe maintenance doses of narcotics at cost† on a tapering-off schedule for addicts who revert to the drugs; prescribe minimum maintenance doses for incurables...
...Navy officer who rose out of the city room to the top editorial post on the pivotal paper of the 15-paper Copley Press, had received a summons from a friend in Washington: Richard Nixon. Next week Editor Klein will fly to Washington for his new job as special assistant to the Vice President...