Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chesty Manikins. Actually, the plane, which moved under its own power with its nose wheel locked to a 4,000-ft. rail, reached greater speed than expected, careened far past the anticipated wreck site. The fire, too, was not anticipated, since the DC-7's main fuel tanks were filled with colored water to trace the post-crash distribution of inflammable fuel. An auxiliary tank carried only enough fuel for the short test run but resulted in the fire, which was quickly doused...
Still Seething. The night before Wallace arrived, handsome Matt Welsh, 51, blistered his segregationist opponent at a district Democratic meeting in Tell City, accused Wallace of "trying to wreck the Democratic Party." Cried he: Wallace's campaign "smells sweet, but it has the taste of death...
...ahead is staggering. It is, as one Brazilian calls it, a "mandate for insomnia." Brazil's economy is an inflationary wreck, its politics a shambles. Reform will demand sacrifice. It will be up to Castello Branco and his government to justify the high price that Brazilians may have...
...California highway patrolman. "You can't drive in there." The crumpled silver-grey Ferrari was wedged between the pines in a canyon in California's High Sierras, where Singer Vic Damone, 35, crash-landed after skidding on a patch of snowy pavement. The car was a total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned by Bill Harrah-who is also Reno...
...night before, Shelby, a tall, bold, wreck-scarred Texan, outlined a simple strategy for the race. Nine Cobras were to tool along at 6,000 r.p.m., fast enough to place respectably, but slow enough to keep from breaking down on a track that demands 28 grating changes of gear to get through a single lap. The other two cars would bear down hard and stay in front of Ferrari's G.T.s at any cost-for as long as they held together...