Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three. Just as some of the experts predicted, the Chaparral spurted into the lead on the first lap. But eight laps later, Driver Hill was in the pits, complaining about a suspicious noise-gas sloshing around in the tank. Imagination turned to reality when the Chaparral's steering froze and the suspension collapsed with eleven hours still to go. One Ferrari dropped out with transmission trouble, another with a broken generator, and only four were still operating by noon on the second day. The Fords were running one-two-three and the only real challenger was the 1966 Ferrari...
Also at Fort Belvoir, Army engineers are trying out the versatile Universal Engineer Tractor, which resembles a World War I tank, is mostly aluminum and weighs only 31,000 Ibs. The UET can be used as a bulldozer, grader, scraper, armored personnel carrier or general-purpose transport, has an over-the-road speed of better than 30 m.p.h. Some new items already in the engineers' toolbox: aluminum landing mats, plastic road surfaces (called "membranes"), and moisture-proof plastic maps that can be wadded up and tucked into a shirt pocket and still retain their original shape...
...Barbara Polomska) with an enemy Hungarian officer, learns that the fleeing Hungarians will lend men and guns to help the Polish Home Army. Before the Poles refuse, the drunken, don't-give-a-damn patriot hustles messages back and forth, so ludicrous a target that a thundering German tank blasts him only with derision. At one point, he joins a long line of evacuees and is forced to shoulder household goods for a peasant woman, a greedy "old bitch" who makes him buy the stuff...
Over all looms the monumental reality of Sophia, a star not easily eclipsed by the shadow of struggling statehood. Sophia plays an Austrian Jew smuggled into the country to help the Israelis find her hated husband, a German war criminal who is now chief strategist for the Arabs' tank corps. She arrives suitably sweaty and distraught, stowed away in a packing case with a power lathe and a corpse. Moments later, her fabulous eye makeup intact, she rackets off to tantalize Finch, soon dons bikini-brief work clothes that scandalize his dedicated kibbutzniks. Her subsequent search leads to Haifa...
...mayor approached. He made only a feint here and there toward seriously talking with Quill, finally left town for Acapulco 20 hours before the strike deadline of 5 a.m. on Jan. 1. Moreover, Quill, a sick man who had had several heart attacks and slept with an oxygen tank by his bedside, was under heavy pressure from his union to win bigger wage hikes than he had been settling for. He realized that this might be his Last Hurrah...