Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punishing 500-mile distance. A minor melee on the 19th lap knocked four cars out of the race, sent Driver Jack Turner to the hospital with a broken hip and a cracked toe. An early dropout was the 1961 winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early leader, Parnelli Jones-who earned the pole position with a dazzling qualifying speed of 150.370 m.p.h., first time anyone has lapped the 2½-mile track in less than 60 sec.-lost his brakes after 310 miles, wound up seventh. The winner: Indianapolis...
...Carpenter was learning to fly in the Navy when the end of World War II sent him restlessly back to Boulder. Twice he enrolled at the University of Colorado, and twice he flunked out. Then, after a long party one night in 1946, he went to sleep at the wheel of his souped-up 1934 Ford. The car knocked over three roadside posts, flew 100 ft. into the air and crashed upside down into a ditch...
When Sweden's Jenny Lind entered New York Harbor on a paddle-wheel steamer in 1850, P.T. Barnum went out in a rowboat to greet her, carrying a spray of red roses in his arms. She was a plain young woman of 29, hair parted in the middle. Her nose was a Nordic spud. She had a wide mouth, and she wore no cosmetics. But she was the most celebrated operatic soprano in the world, and a few days later a man bid $225 to buy the first ticket to her first concert in America...
...Most of them were incidents, not accidents," he says. "Twice my steering wheel snapped off. Nine or ten times the brakes failed. Ten or eleven times wheels fell...
...last fortnight, Cartoonist Batchelor, whose personal driving record is well-nigh unblemished, finished the 1,001st contribution to his crusade, drove out for a weekend at his country home in Connecticut. There, behind the wheel of his 1950 Jaguar sedan (Conn, license ITU-for Inviting the Undertaker), with his wife at his side. Cartoonist Batchelor ran head-on into real-life inspiration for his 1,002nd traffic cartoon...