Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...bout as old as you are, and that's pretty old. I jes don't know how long I can keep going." Ward made a half-hearted attempt at a recovery, and then smiled a PR man smile until the engineer n the booth mercifully switched back to Jim McKay. The next day Ruby ran very fast, but blew up two engines without completing the four qualifying laps. His crew toiled diligently through the week, and Ruby eventually qualified the team's backup car during the second weekend. He made the sixth best qualifying time over...
Roger McCluskey has been racing at Indianapolis since the early 1960's. He's never finished the race, though he's often run well. This year he was the fourth fastest qualifier in a turbocharged Ford. Clint Brawner and Jim McGee, mechanics for Andretti's winning STP Oil Treatment Special last year, built and maintain McClusky's Quickick Special this year. The combination sounds good, but the only money McCluskey's made this year has been for laundry detergent commercials on TV with his wife. If the car would last. McCluskey could win, but neither seems very likely...
...that it's that time again. More convincing is the fact that Foyt's crew, headed up by his father, had everything so well in hand that they were able to qualify four cars for the race, including one on the very last day, for fellow Texan Jim McElreath, whose original car had been bumped from the field by a faster qualifier. On top of this , Foyt just happens to be the distributor for the turbocharged Ford V8 racing engines that two thirds of this year's qualifiers are using. When he was first awarded the franchise last fall...
...Says young Arness: "You can get so stoked [deliriously happy] on waves that you can't stand it." His father knows the feeling-and the surfers' jargon. When his bov called from Melbourne, Australia, with the news that he had been crowned world surfboard champion, Big Jim answered, "Son, I'm stoked...
...reasons for that expectation: the avowed intention of the Government to permit only a gradual growth of money supply and the likelihood that many individual investors, burned badly for the first time in their lives in the current bear market, will think long and hard about buying stocks again. Jim Fitzgerald, a Los Angeles broker, says that his customers have expressed "sheer disbelief" that the stock market could drop as much as it has, and adds: "Many of the people who are selling now will never want back in again...