Word: v12
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prevails as an individual against mass-production giants. His cars are high-strung, low-slung machines with the delicate balance of a watch and the stamina of a bull rhino. The 3.5-liter Ferrari that won the Mille Miglia is powered with a huge twelve-cylinder engine, the only V12 currently in production, which can push it smoothly along the straightaway at close to 190 m.p.h. The weight of engine and chassis is kept low in relation to the horsepower (about 6 Ibs. per h.p.). Thus the cars have tremendous pickup. The low center of gravity (and just enough weight...
Crapshooter l/c. Boston-bred Fred Richmond got his start in business at Harvard, in the Navy's wartime V12 officer-training program. In his spare time, he ran a one-man tax consultant service and drummed up ads for the Harvard Lampoon. Shipped to the Pacific before finishing Harvard, he came out of the war a radioman third class and crapshooter first class. He graduated from Boston University, then used $1,400 of Navy dice winnings to start an ad-sales office...
...real answer to successful, all-out heart surgery is likely to be a device which will take over the work of both sides of the heart and the lungs as well. The "Michigan heart," as Harper officials call Dr. Dodrill's machine, is built like a V12 engine: the second bank of six cylinders can do the work of the heart's right side. There is also an oxygenator to pinch-hit for the lungs. The whole machine has been tested on dogs, but there must be a lot more testing done before it satisfies surgeons generally...
Young Carl Rowan has done well since he left his home town of McMinnville, Tenn. eight years ago. He won a Navy V12 scholarship, got one of the few Navy commissions given to Negroes, took a master's degree at the University of Minnesota and went to work as a reporter for the Minneapolis morning Tribune (circ. 185,500). Two months ago, Newshawk Rowan persuaded his editor to let him make a 6,000-mile tour by bus, train and rented cars of 13 Southern states for a series of stories. Last week, the Tribune began front-paging...
...leave jobs and family to go to war, and because of the factors which led these people to the field of medicine rather than West Point, they may well want to leave even less. I think that it is only fair to point out that there were ASTP and V12 students in many fields other than medicine and dentistry, but I have yet to hear of a draft of engineers, chaplains, or language students. Because pilots are trained at Government expense, they are not asked to fly at private's pay as has been suggested...