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...38th Harvard College Fund drive, completed this summer, apparently chalked up the largest one-year increase ever recorded by an annual alumni fund. The drive netted $2,347,596, 40 per cent more than the $1,676,778 raised...
...Read. The answer was no. On the 38th lap, Marshman cracked his crankcase. Nine laps later, Clark's left axle crumpled, and California's Parnelli Jones, 1963 winner, urged his Offy into the lead. But it was not Jones's day either: running low on fuel, he pulled into the pits. Somehow, a spark got into the fuel tank; the car burst into flame. Uniform smoldering, Jones leaped out and rolled on the ground; stretcher bearers carried...
...Chinese Nationalist troops "sweetened by two U.S. Marine divisions," MacArthur would have landed on both the east and west sides of the Korean peninsula at the North Korean border, thus trapping the Chinese Communist armies that were storming to the south. "Now, the Eighth Army, spread along the 38th Parallel, would have put pressure on the enemy from the south. The joined amphibious forces would press down from the north. The enemy would have been starved out within ten days...
...April 1 the U.S. economy will begin what should turn out to be its 38th straight month of expansion -the longest peacetime period of gain in three decades...
...20th lap, both had lapped the entire field. But neither one could shake the other. Sixteen times in the first 38 laps the lead changed hands, while both drivers nursed their cars carefully, hoping for a break that would put them in front to stay. On the 38th lap, it came: Gurney had to stop for gas. The gas tank of his Lotus held only 40 gal. v. 50 for the Scarab. In the pit, the Lotus's starter froze, and by the time Gurney got back on the track, Foyt was a full lap ahead. Desperately, he tried...