Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current teammate. Joe Leonard, in one of the now-banned turbine cars. With the turbines effectively banished from the Speedway by air inlet restrictions, some of the technical interest has gone out of the race. All of this year's qualifiers are in rear engined, two wheel drive vehicles, powered by turbocharged versions of eight cylinder Fords or four cylinder offys. But even though the cars are all basically similar, all of the car and driver combinations are not equal. Barring a recurrence of the 1966 race, where one third of the field was eliminated before they reached the first...
...announced to a few key Senators shortly before the press was informed. But this time Nixon personally met the nominee and chatted with him for 45 minutes before deciding on him. Despite widespread criticism of his role in selecting nominees, Mitchell seems outwardly undisturbed. As he spun a wheel of chance to select Washington's 1970 Cherry Blossom Queen, the Attorney General managed a small joke: "I have a very good idea how we're going to get the next Supreme Court nominee...
...remained there most of his life. But Derby, near the manufacturing towns of Birmingham and Sheffield, was an early center of industrialization, with an excitement all its own. Even as a child, Wright was fascinated by things mechanical. He made models of machines, clocks and guns, a tiny spinning wheel and a toy peep show. James Watt, the perfecter of the steam engine, John Wilkinson, the iron manufacturer who developed the cast-iron bridge, Sir Richard Arkwright, the wealthy cotton manufacturer who invented the spinning jenny, and Josiah Wedgwood, whose name is still synonymous with fine pottery, all lived near...
...that fly to Cuba). There are long lists of people waiting to leave. Desperation has forced many to brave the Florida straits in fragile crafts. More than 15.000 Cubans have reached the U.S. coast in this way. The case of a young soldiers who fled Cuba in the nose wheel landing compartment of a Spanish airliner certainly is memorable...
...tail-lights were broken, the speedometer was broken. The right front door wouldn't open and it wouldn't close but existed in a state somewhere in between so that the person sitting on the floor next to the door (there was only one seat, behind the steering wheel) got all kinds of dirt blown on to him from the New Jersey Turnpike . . . . When we got to Washington John Mayne backed over the car of some staff-member of Congress...