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...Europe's hairiest: the road twists through four tortuous hairpins, uncurling finally into a long "straightaway" that is an assortment of dips, hills and fast curves that are taken at upwards of 150 m.p.h. But last week Solitude was downright dangerous. A cloudburst turned the asphalt slick as ice; and it was still pouring dime-sized drops when 18 Formula I cars roared away from the grid, roostertails of spray streaming in their wake...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:14 p.m.). John Huston's Asphalt Jungle, a classic tale of an attempted jewel robbery, starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Sam Jaffe...
Splinters in the Dust. Chief holdout is old New York. In a memorable exchange in 1948, Architectural Critic Lewis Mumford accused Park Commissioner Robert Moses of creating playground spaces "that are merely leftovers, bleak asphalt wastes, marks of an absence of human interest and an almost positive distaste for beauty." To parents' demands that sawdust be substituted for cement, Park Commissioner Newbold Morris replied with a pungent comment on the problems of the great big city. "Sawdust gets full of splinters, broken glass, empty cigarette packages and debris. We're experimenting with a rubber compound...
...statehouse tipsters. Sooner or later, they all visit Waldron, and the tales they tell are music to a man who defines his job as a daily search for crooked politicians. In due time, Waldron's questing eye turned on Florida's Sunshine State Parkway, a four-lane asphalt ribbon winding the 211 miles between Miami and Orlando. If ever a state project might draw flies, thought Waldron, that...
Highlighting Harvard's performance was a 1:51.6 half-mile by John Ogden and sweeps of both hurdle events. Ogden's time over the rubberized asphalt track was just fast enough to beat Ed Gastonguay of Brandeis, the defending champion in the event, and was only 0.2 seconds off the Harvard record...