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Florida's International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance was less than four hours old when Chicago's Bob Gold-ich, 33, took a tricky S turn just a touch too fast. His little (1.9 liters) Arnolt-Bristol sports car skidded across a taxiway at Sebring's abandoned airfield and rolled into a sideways somersault. A graduate of the dangerous melees of midget-auto racing and the father of two children, Goldich was dead of a broken neck before he reached the hospital...
...Power Within You, by Claude Bristol and Harold Sherman (Prentice-Hall; 85,000 copies), is about as noisy as the mental dynamite it promises to detonate-that something which will "release you from chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach . . . and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake...
...fashioned fraternity pins and class rings to certain arrangements of pigtails or bobby pins. Parents often encourage these relationships as stabilizing or "cute." But Catholic authorities view them as a danger to morals so serious that last month the principal of St. Anthony's parochial high school in Bristol, Conn, expelled four students for going steady, and the current issues of two Catholic magazines attack the custom...
BRITANNIA TURBOJETS will go into commercial service in February. After many delays, Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd. has modified turbine engines, cured problems of icing, flameouts. British Overseas Airways Corp. will start planes that can carry up to 133 passengers on London-South Africa run, later fly them to Australia, Far East...
Tony Hillerman, news editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican, was rifling through a stack of press handouts from Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory last week in the hope of finding something worth putting in the paper. One routine announcement noted that William F. Carlson of Bristol, Conn. had been hired for the new "N" Division, which, said the release, "is concerned with research and development of nuclear rocket propulsion...