Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daytona Beach, Fla., already had a tradition of speed when a onetime Washington, D.C., garage mechanic named William Henry Getty France settled there in 1934 and opened a gas station. In 1903, Alexander Winton whistled across the hard sandy beach in a Bullet at 68.198 m.p.h. to set Daytona's first land speed record-and started a sequence that culminated in Sir Malcolm Campbell's 276.816-m.p.h. run in his Bluebird...
...Built in 1958, the $3,500,000 Speedway is really two tracks: a two-mile road course for sports cars and the stock-car "trioval"-a roughly triangular, 2½-mile circuit with two high-speed turns banked at 31° and a third turn banked at 18°. The banking, the perfectly smooth asphalt paving, plus the track's unusual width -three cars can race abreast-make it the fastest race track in the world. In qualifying trials for last week's tenth annual Daytona 500, the top 13 qualifiers ran the course at more than...
...yellow caution light went on for accidents eleven times. The lead changed hands no fewer than 22 times-until, just ten miles from the end, South Carolina's Cale Yarborough, 28, edged into the lead in his 1968 Mercury. He crossed the finish line with an average speed of 143.251 m.p.h. And there was Bill France, handing Yarborough the trophy that went with his winner's check...
...secrets of the cartridge's miniaturization is that its tape moves more slowly over the sound pickups than conventional reel-to-reel tape. Since sound quality is related to tape speed, the cartridge sacrifices some high fidelity-but in return it crams in an average of 80 minutes of uninterrupted music. Its biggest market so far has been in autos; since 1966, Detroit manufacturers have offered dashboard-model cartridge players as optional equipment on new models...
...succession of pictures in queer sequence. Think about dreams, then try to take a close look at this movie. It's impossible. Desire unfolds at a curious distance as if its people and actions were washed in the gideon colors of Dream. The salient elements of Dream are speed and deliberation. Desire approximates both. The plot careens arrogantly through a disequence of scenes, no connections provided: the junkyard; Twelvetrees in a hallway, in a bathroom; Anastasia on a long walk; Twelvetrees making love to Samantha; Blaine in his telephone booth. If we seize on any pattern...