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...narrow Saunders Street, in the shoddy suburb called Caraleigh at the southern fringe of Raleigh, N.C., stands the Windmill. Its dragon-green neon arms whirl day and night, its sexy carhops skip out in black slacks to take orders on the big, asphalt parking space, its gigantic jukebox, hitched up to outdoor amplifiers, drenches the area with blare: Pin Ball Boogie, maybe, or Jo Stafford's plangent yearning for someone to Make Love to Me -and always plenty of hillbilly...
...million in all. Around the calendar, rain or shine, there were 107 thoroughbred race tracks to go to?such huge showplace parks as Belmont. Hialeah and Santa Anita; such tradition-misted places as Kentucky's Churchill Downs, Maryland's Pimlico or upstate New York's Saratoga; such concrete-and-asphalt betting receptacles as New York's Jamaica and Aqueduct; dozens of obscure little tracks that horsemen call "bull rings." There were 50,000 registered thoroughbreds, at least half of them in racing training, and 1,400 tough, undersized and often brave little men to don the silks...
There should be no surprises on the 8.6-mile Le Mans course, a crudely rectangular ribbon of asphalt stretched over the gently rolling French countryside. Cunningham, like the rest of the Le Mans drivers, knows it by night & day, and by heart. "Among other things, there's a fog early in the morning. I don't know anything as hair-raising as driving in that fog at 150 m.p.h. It's in patches and moves about the course...
Roof Saver. To cut down losses such as occurred at General Motors Livonia plant fire (TIME, Aug. 24), Cleveland's Lexsuco, Inc. brought out a vinyl plastic roofing material, which will char, but not burn. The plastic replaces layers of felt, stuck together with asphalt, which separate the roof deck from its insulation. It was the melting asphalt that intensified the fire at Livonia when it fell into the flames. Cost is no higher than standard roof construction. First customer: Ford Motor Co., for an addition to its Cleveland engine plant...
...long and hard under the electron microscope, photographed it and measured it. It turns out to be a spherical particle almost exactly a millionth of an inch in diameter. Magnified tens of thousands of times against a plastic screen, the virus particles look like tennis balls on an asphalt court...