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...enough to give a motorcycle cop ulcers. On the slick asphalt pavement, the cut-down, exhaust-blatting hot rods stood poised for takeoff. Hunched over steering wheels, leather-masked drivers squinted through their goggles as the crowd shouted: "Stripe it, Chevy!" "Twist him off!" At the signal, the cars roared away-but not to the wail of a police siren. In Pomona, Calif., last week, the country's foremost hot-rodders were holding their Winternational Drag Racing championships before 39,000 cheering auto buffs...
...saying that the U.S. was turning soft and by suggesting that fighting men might better be trained on beer and whisky than on ice cream. (He himself was never a man to refuse a drink-a fact discreetly withheld by Biographer Davis.) He once marched his men along an asphalt highway under a broiling sun until even tough young officers were passing out. "We can't hope to win future wars-and we got the hell beat out of us in Korea-unless we have discipline," he said. "It is going to take some brutality...
...movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana) and scores of zanily imaginative TV shows. He had one of the world's most staggering cigar bills ($13,000 a year), and a $600,000 Los Angeles house equipped with an indoor waterfall and an asphalt driveway turntable that spun cars around to head them back to the street...
...virgin lands, tunneling through mountains, erecting steel mills and bridges, building new cities and rebuilding old ones. On Vladivostok, dozens of new apartment buildings climbed up the wooded hills overlooking Golden Horn Bay. The citizens of Omsk, surrounded by a treeless steppe, were paving more and more streets with asphalt in an effort to end the dust storms that have plagued them for centuries. Irkutsk swarmed with thousands of students beginning the new school year at the city's three universities, two medical colleges and eight technical institutes. On Lake Baikal, the deepest in the world, fishermen cast their...
...turn out plywood as well as machine tools; bricks, knitwear and cement as well as tractors. In the city, the old is carelessly mixed with the new. Many streets are potholed and puddled, lined with haphazard wooden hovels that have leaned crazily for years. Others are wide, tree-shaded asphalt boulevards, flanked with government buildings, theaters, stores and hotels. Irkutsk's citizens are hustled to work in jammed buses in the mornings, and when the day's labor is finished, hurry home again to the cramped wooden huts or the crowded grey-and-yellow apartment blocks, exactly like...