Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months Madame Vuillier's success has even begun to make a racing buff out of family's spokesman who has always been bored by horses: 23-year-old Karim the reigning Aga Khan and son of the Sportsman Aly Khan, who was killed in May at the wheel of his Lancia. When Aly's will was published last week, it declared that the stables must be sold, but added the proviso that any of his heirs had first priority to buy. Karim himself is expected to be the first to be first in line with cash...
...Inhelder suggests some translations. For example, a five-year-old thinks that a tall glass contains more water than a flat bowl. Shown that glass and bowl contain equal amounts, he is learning the principle of the invariance of quantities. In fact, a grade school teacher with a roulette wheel may turn out students more skilled in probabilistic reasoning than a college professor with a course in statistics...
When classes are over, Michelangeli, a powerful, strapping man whose large hands can dominate a steering wheel as readily as a keyboard, climbs into his Lancia and scorches the road to his sea side summer home. The pianist drove in the prewar Mille Miglia three times, won once, but now has quit racing, officially at least. (He boasts that he recently forced his Ferrari to 186 m.p.h...
...thousands of Europeans flocked to the "Beach," the starting point of ferries making the two-mile run across the mighty river to Brazzaville in French Congo. Normally, the ferries operate only in daylight to avoid being swept downstream into the perilous rapids, but the terrified whites crowded onto paddle-wheel steamers, motorboats, skiffs-anything that would float-in their panicky flight...
...with the sharp will to win, but with temperaments that will not snap under the stress of a race. Finisterre's crew members, whose average age is close to 50, are completely interchangeable. A crack helmsman, Mitchell always handles the starts but thinks nothing of giving up the wheel if he feels his touch is off. Chick Larkin, a plastics engineer from Buffalo, and Cory Cramer, a New Haven prep school history teacher, are not only fine navigators but can also turn a neat trick at the wheel. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, and Bobby Symonette, operator...