Word: kel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cologne, where 2,500 members of West Germany's Western Bund gathered in a meadow to dress up as cowboys, Indians and Civil War soldiers and live the life of the Old West as it really was. Casual spectators were strictly forbidden. Said Hans ("Old Joe") Jäkel, 55, a retired Cologne machinist who has been Grand Marshal of the Bund's annual three-day councils for the past 20 years: "This is no performance. We are serious here...
Fifty-six-year-old Australian pro Kel Nagle took a one-stroke lead in an international golf tournament at Melbourne yesterday. Nagle, who won the World Seniors in 1971, reached the peak of his career in 1960 when he won the centenary British Open at St. Andrews, staving off the closing charge of a young Arnold Palmer...
...proper torque to move a car's wheels directly. Rotary engines are smaller, peppier and potentially cheaper to build than conventional reciprocating models, and have only six major points of wear, v. 100 in a conventional engine. The most persistent bug, ever since Inventor Felix Wankel (pronounced Van-kel) introduced his first complete model in 1957, has been a tendency for the rotor tips to wear down too quickly. That problem apparently has been solved with modern metal-coating processes, but the rotary engine still has at least one major disadvantage. It uses about 10% more fuel than standard...