Word: winninger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his commander ordered his decimated squadron to withdraw from the Battle of Copenhagen, Admiral Nelson clapped a telescope to his blind eye, exclaiming: "I really do not see the signal!" He ended, of course, by winning the battle. His namesake, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, can also...
The Automobile Manufacturers Association has told its members since 1957 not to participate in races, but Ford and Chrysler have openly broken the ban, and General Motors does not prevent its dealers from slipping cars onto local drag strips. Racing spurs the sales of the winning car, especially in the...
They really did not have much choice. Critics used to accuse Chamberlain of being strictly a goon and a "gunner"-a glory hound who was more interested in pouring in points and setting scoring records than in winning games. This season Chamberlain surprised them. As usual, he led the league...
"They have us in their hip pocket," said Texas Oilman Hap Sharp, complaining that Jiis two Chevrolet-powered Chaparrals were leaking oil and handling poorly on practice runs. Italy's Enzo Ferrari, whose high-whining, finely tuned cars had dominated Sebring for a decade, winning seven times in all...
Died. Mary L. McCarran, 59, daughter of the late U.S. Senator Pat Mc Carran, who spent 32 years as Sister Mary Mercy, a Holy Names nun, often driven to despair as her politically influential father constantly meddled in her cloistered life-winning her trips to Europe, paying for her to...