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Bane or Boon? Even so, the success of the Formula Junior is worrying many of its original backers. Many of the first cars were slapped together by backyard mechanics, and the races had a pleasantly informal air. Now the winning cars come almost exclusively from more than 20 Italian, English, French and U.S. firms-including renowned racing names like Lotus, Cooper and OSCA-who are building the new cars at peak capacity. Europeans are grooming their Formula Junior cars with Grand Prix care and cash. When New York's grand old Vanderbilt Cup was revived in June after...
...hope of finding his son alive faded away, Hester set up a marble urn in his backyard in Los Angeles as a memorial to Bob and his fellow crewmen. "The war will never end for us," he wrote to the parents of the lost B-24's pilot. He bought a parcel of land near Lone Pine, built a house there. "Now I won't have to go so far to look for Bob," he said...
...Council's ruling in effect eliminates almost all student parking on the Cambridge side of the river. With the exception of a few backyard spaces and private garages, parking can be found only in the Business School area, which provides 2,025 places, for an annual...
...exactly two days the Democratic presidential nominee devoted him self entirely to the leisurely life - cruising in his father's 52-ft. yacht The Marlin (built in 1930 for Edsel Ford), browsing through Anthony Trollope's novel The American Senator, swimming, napping, and playing in the backyard with Daughter Caroline, 2½. Then the special switch board began to flash like a swarm of fire flies, his appointment book began to fill up ominously, and Jack Kennedy found himself in the midst of a presidential campaign and more...
...half a dozen laboratories. At one point, Raborn's talent scouts had to track down an expatriate German, descendant of a long line of armor makers, who could work the heat-resistant beryllium parts for the missile's control vanes. They found him in Ohio, in a backyard auto garage...