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Peter Latham would have sedentary Bostonians playing "Cracket-an outdoor game" on every asphalt parking lot. The game is a stepchild of squash, played with a wooden paddle against two portable walls. The court occupies only about 300 square feet. Interested athletes may practice their Cracket at City Hall-Latham set up a court in a corner of the exhibition hall...
...under Ruby's face. In three out of the past four 500's Ruby had had victory in sight, only to fall victim to some unlikely mechanical failure. His luck at Indy has been on the under side of average. He just stood there, scuffing his foot on the asphalt. Finally, he turned to face Ward. "It just doesn't matter, now," he said softly. "We're going to be way back in the pack anyway. Our luck just seems to be bad here. You know, Ward," he said in a very tired drawl. "I'm bout...
...Cavanagh picked up a second-hand girl's tennis racket in the ninth grade and taught himself how to play tennis on the asphalt public courts of Cranston, R.I. He never received any lessons or any formal high school coaching...
Liquid Latex Pavement. At Texas A. & M., Research Engineer Douglas Bynum, 35, is testing his theory that the rubber in discarded tires might give asphalt added flexibility and more resistance to cracking. Working in the university's Transportation Institute, Bynum prepared samples of asphalt combined with ground-up rubber obtained from old tires. Test results showed that the powdered rubber-used as a binding material-increases asphalt's overall cohesiveness so that it does not split when roadbeds shift slightly or sink. Bynum's findings seem to be a natural outgrowth of experiments by the rubber industry...
Best of all, Bynum says, there would be no foreseeable shortage of materials for the improved roads. Combined with asphalt, the old tires and bottles disposed of in 1970 could pave a freeway that would span the U.S. 23 times...