Word: carli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proclaims solemnly: "One never snows anyone other than to do good; never take advantage of anyone that you have been able to snow under." Much of the snow these days comes from his office in his Madison, Tenn. home-which is wedged between a gas station and a used-car lot-where the Colonel keeps fresh the country touch. He and his wife have no children, give most of their time to a large garden, once kept a string of ponies and rented them out to all comers...
...tiny racers, one of 3,500 around the U.S. Nor is the U.S. alone in the sport; go karting is growing at full throttle in Europe, and colonies are flourishing in Australia, Peru and Mexico. Explains one official: "Every frustrated driver who could never afford a competition car is putting himself or his kid in a go kart...
Handle with Care. In the eyes of critics, go karters take plenty of chances for their money and fun. On the theory that it is better to be thrown clear of a flipping car than pinned beneath it, the drivers wear no safety belts, rely on heavy leather jackets for protection. Brakes are sometimes rudimentary; the steering is so sensitive that the slightest nudge of the wheel is enough to jerk the nose around. Most important, a 125-lb., 18-h.p. go kart can match a red-hot Porsche "Spyder" in weight-to-horsepower ratio, and is just as likely...
...Sports Car Club of America still shuns the upstart go kart as unsafe and undignified. But many a driver of 150-m.p.h. racers keeps a go kart in his backyard, insists that the wide-tread width (two-thirds of the wheelbase) makes the kart safer than most bigger machines. Top sports-car men who get a kick out of go karts include John Fitch, Jay Chamberlain and Dan Gurney, despite the fact that one knocked him down last year in the Bahamas and broke his ankle. And in Britain, Stirling Moss, the finest driver of them all, is a partner...
...unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently because it was built in the year (1819) of Her Majesty's birth-and go barreling through the enemy barricades. The plot is as old as Noah but as lively as it ever was, and if the British keep on like...