Word: valiante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enscoe made a valiant attempt to out-kick Dave Pottetti and John Heyburn for sixth place, gaining 40 yards in the last quarter-mile, but he had to settle for eighth as his roommate Pottetti won the battle and Heyburn hung on for seventh. All of them were less than a minute behind Shaw...
Penn's George Lokken had run a valiant race, staying close to Harvard pacesetter Royce Shaw for the first four miles. Throughout the race they were joined at the front by a succession of Harvard runners; first Doug Hardin, then Dave Pottetti, and finally Tom Spengler. Mid-way up the last hill, Lokken suddenly found himself surrounded by four opponents. When Spengler raced right past the leaders, his teammates joined him, leaving Lokken gasping in the dust...
When small, low-priced imports took over a 10% share of the domestic auto market in the late 1950s, General Motors fought back with the Corvair, Ford with the Falcon, and Chrysler with the Valiant. So successful were these com pacts that by 1962 the foreign share of the market had dropped to under 5%. Figuring that the battle was over, the Big Three made the mistake of allowing their compacts to grow in both size and price. The result has been a new upsurge in the popularity of imports, which grabbed 9.4% of U.S. sales...
Mary Worth Prince Valiant...
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