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...know two guys'll bet anything that moves. Pups, ponies, Perfectas, Trifectas, Superfectas, Daily Doubles, fly balls into a sunfield, anything. Quote 'em a line, and they'll have the money out and down before you can say "Jimmy the Greek took a bath in the Series." The Doc works in an office dominated by a half-size poster from the Big A that looks like "Nude Descending a Staircase," and has two front and center season seats for Celtics homegames that he probably bought out of profits. Everything I know--spreads, books, combinations, percentages--the works, I got from...
...Acid Bath. Technological superiority is as important in drag racing as it is in the nuclear arms race. In fact, Bill Jenkins' success results less from his skill as a driver ("A monkey can drive one of these things down a straight track," he says) than from his knack as an engineer. A farm boy from Downingtown, Pa., he dropped out of Cornell University's engineering school in 1953 after his father died. He made his living for several years building engines and preparing race cars for competition, before deciding in 1965 to drive them himself in order...
...outrigger in back to keep the front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine produces nearly 650 h.p. against a normal...
...meeting, black NCLC leader Isaiah Scott announced a workers' march on Brooklyn, N.Y., late this week. He said that if the march is blocked, "there will be a blood bath in Brooklyn...
Director Levinson, a former cartoonist and animator, gets off a few broadly effective visual gags (the president of the steelworkers union taking a bubble bath in his hard hat), but he has all the ironic sense of a divorce-court magistrate, and the sort of teary sentimentality that allows him to present scenes of federal troops sacking a hippie camp in slow motion while Judy Collins sings Amazing Grace on the sound track. Nevertheless, one admires the vigor, if not the style, of his attack...