Word: zoomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods. In the cockpits sat some of racing's top drivers, among them Indianapolis Veteran A. J. Foyt. Down went the flag. Off screamed the Corvettes. And zoom-a ringer from G.M.'s family production line ran off with the race...
Queen with a reputation for zoom in sports cars back home, was having his woes with the lawnmower-engined buzz bombs. In a regimental race, his kart had no go, and though he leaned professionally into the turns, he wound up, according to one polite observer, "among the last...
Worn-Out Carpets. At the first hint of the shortening day, light bulb sales zoom -even before the bulbs are really needed...
This breathless financial growth delights Mitarai, of course. But most memorable to him, since the old Japanese reputation still rankled, is the occasion two years ago when he took the Canonet, along with a 2000-mm. television zoom lens, a 50-mm. lens four times faster than the human eye, and other Canon products to the Cologne Photokina Exhibit. It was a tough audience of German cameramakers to play to. Crows Mitarai: "We demonstrated, and the Europeans admitted, that Japanese products were no longer mere improved copies. They were based on original techniques...
...derbies, top hats, brightly chromed World War II helmets -and far-out chatter: "Man, look at that screamer. Like that's sudden iron."* But the 300 drivers who competed for the coveted title of ''Top Eliminator" were a long cry from the thrill-crazy "squirrels" who zoom through traffic and terrorize motorists. A few were professional racers; the majority were serious, mechanically inclined young men who belong to the National Hot Rod Association and test their creations in a relatively sane manner. They pay scrupulous attention to traffic laws (a ticket may mean suspension from their...