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Exactly 135 & Six. With all the Lotus' ailments, it was only natural that Clark should become a pretty good sidewalk mechanic. So good, in fact, that he could turn a practice lap, whisk back into the pit, and announce: "We've got to jiggle the gear ratios-25, 27 maybe. Even with a good tow, I'm not getting the revs." At the same time, he was polishing his driving skills to the point where he could say: "When I go into a corner, I can tell you instantly whether I'm inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Hero with a Hot Shoe | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...would think of those bones at bed time. We all became kind of fond of him," said Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, after spending ten days pecking away with trowel, whisk broom and dental pick to unearth a fragile, 700-year-old skeleton in a kiva (chamber) of an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement in wildest Arizona. Lynda roughed it with a team from the University of Arizona excavating near a place called Grasshopper. And while she was rolling that wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...TRAIN. A battle of the rails pits Burt Lancaster against Nazi Officer Paul Scofield, who tries to whisk a trainload of French art treasures off to Germany during the last days of the occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...School's Ad Hoc Committee to Bring Vicki to Harvard and Gerry Sarnat '67 plan to whisk their celebrity from the airport to an eventful weekend at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vicki Here Now; Protest Planned | 4/15/1965 | See Source »

...small, gnomelike man danced on the floor of the Parliament chamber, fluttering his fly whisk and shouting, "Decision! Decision! Decision!" He was Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, 58, and he was demanding a clear choice by Parliament between him and a band of five rebel Ministers led by the second most popular man in Malawi (formerly Nyasaland), Education Minister Masauko Chipembere, 34. Parliament's members gave Banda a vote of confidence by acclamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malawi: Challenge for Father | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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