Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writes for the Village Voice, is 31. Its staff is also young and intrepid, sort of. A writer-photographer team jumped with the skydivers; another photographer dangled from a crane to shoot the cover picture of sky divers; still another lay down by the road to get a wheel's-eye view of the cycles whizzing...
...sheep to graze in his bank's main lobby. Emphasizing the virtues of teamwork, he has arrived at official meetings decked out in baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank's executives ought to aim at bigger and bigger targets, he once donned a shooting jacket and bounded into a conference room amid a volley of blank .30-cal. cartridges...
...Rafferty had a few remarks for 1,000 enthusiastic supporters. " Today," he said, "the hydraheaded enemy wears different disguises: the sick mask of obscenity, the wild and raving false face of drug addiction; the sullen mask of subversion; the devilish domino of lawlessness. And so the great wheel of time has come again full circle in our day, and the mantle of our fathers has fallen to our shoulders...
...washed away by the clean sea . . . The stars are big, they rock side by side like Galileo drunk and Kepler stoned and Copernicus thinking, like Vasco da Gama in his bunk in thought, the wind, the cleanness, the dark, the quiet blue light in the bridge where hand holds wheel and course is set. The sleeping seamen below...
...Mark III's most obvious feature is a vertical hashmark grille in shimmering metal that closely resembles the grille of a Rolls-Royce. On its 117-in. wheel base, the car mounts an eight-cylinder, 460-cu.-in. engine specially designed to provide improved combustion and cut exhaust fumes. Other features, including interior warning lights, air conditioners and radios, have been adapted from either the smaller Thunderbird or the bigger Lincoln...