Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precaution against pilfering, gas is sold only in 21 gallon lots for prepur-chased coupons. Drivers frequently carry an empty vodka bottle, in the event the auto's tank is filled before one of the 21 gallon units is completely pumped in. Since the housing shortage places a higher priority on new apartments, virtually no garages have been built. Cars must be kept outside or put on blocks from November to March...
...America's Cup trials, the least surprised man in Newport was Britton Chance Jr., the young naval architect who had taken the old 1967 Cup winner and redesigned her into the 1970 Cup defender. To Chance's mind, the outcome was decided last winter in a test tank in Hoboken, N.J. There, like some bathtub admiral, he spent four months testing 75 different model hulls until "I felt we had a winning design for Intrepid.'" Chance was sure of it when he saw the first photograph of Valiant under sail. "I could tell from the shape...
...majesté. But Chance isn't listening; he is too busy explaining why Stephens, after designing three of the last four Cup winners, was all but swamped by the new Intrepid. "Olin works very slowly," says Chance. "He gets in trouble with some aspects of his tank tests and ends up confused by the results...
...noted ocean racer. Brit Jr. began sailing tiny sneak boxes on New Jersey's Barnegat Bay, moved on to the E scows his grandfather imported from the Great Lakes. After three years of studying physics at the University of Rochester, he quit school to apply his test-tank theories in open waters. Success came quickly; his innovative 5.5-meter designs, for example, have so far won four world championships, as well as gold and silver medals in the 1968 Olympics...
...undershirt underground, but the shirts are no longer the exclusive property of the kids. In the swank summer resorts of East Hampton, Southampton and Stonington, Captain America shirts are showing up. At the America's Cup races in Newport, Mrs. David Rockefeller Jr. wore a gold Superman tank top; Brooke Hayward, Jill St. John and Raquel Welch (with an explosive "POW" on her version) are into the undershirt scene...