Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running - driven by Dan Gurney and Indianapolis 500 Winner A. J. Foyt. But it was exactly where it was supposed to be-in the lead. "We kept expecting mechanical trouble," Gurney said later, "but it never came. The Ferraris were no real threat." With Foyt at the wheel, the first man ever to win at both Indy and Le Mans, No. 1 merely coasted across the finish line, 32.5 miles ahead of the pack. In 24 hours, Gurney and Foyt had covered 3,251 miles at a record average speed of 135.4 m.p.h.-10 m.p.h. faster than the old mark...
...they had seen most of their favorites fall by the wayside: Graham Hill, the 1966 winner, out on the 24th lap with a sick piston in his Lotus-Ford; Mario Andretti, the speediest qualifier at 168.9 m.p.h., out on the 59th lap when his Brawner-Ford threw a wheel on the No. 3 turn; Dan Gurney, the second fastest qualifier (at 167.2 m.p.h.), black-flagged on the 161st lap with a blown cylinder in his American Eagle. And they had watched, first with awe, then with mounting ennui, as Parnelli Jones, in his turbine-powered STP Special, made it look...
Died. Raymond Smith, 80, founder of Reno's Harolds Club and a pioneer of mass gambling, a onetime carnival worker who launched the club named after his son in 1935 with one roulette wheel and two battered slot machines, built it into the world's biggest casino under one roof (20,000 customers daily), and finally cashed in when he and his sons sold out in 1962 to an Eastern syndicate for $17,500,000; of cancer; in Reno...
...wheel of a speeding, careening truck in downtown Los Angeles, police said they found a driver "naked and incoherent" on LSD. He insisted he remembered nothing about the trip...
...frisky behavior. Rotating a series of color filters in front of its TV camera, it shot pictures of the soil scattered on its white footpad-which made an ideal photographic background. Scientists will compare the shade of the soil in black and white pictures with a color-coded wheel that is attached to Surveyor's leg and is visible in each picture. From the comparison, they hope to determine the approximate color of the soil. "We placed the soil just where we wanted it," said Caltech Engineer Ronald Scott, who supervised the experiment. "The operation was accurate to within...