Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will see another guy go down with an injury and shake his head in sympathy and express sincere concern, but he just doesn't believe it can happen to him. Yes, it's a violent game and yes, it hurts sometimes, but injury never crosses his mind. Like a car accident, it only happens to other people. So when the doctor tells him he can't play, he feels cheated. His body has let him down. He asks himself...
...been killed or seriously injured in the 6 million Malibu laps to date (though one nervous driver sprained a finger on the steering wheel, and several speeders have crashed through a fence). After buying tickets ($1.25 a lap) and getting instructions on safety regulations and the operation of the car, drivers buckle into Bell helmets and safety belts to await the red, amber and green signal light at the starting line. There is no wheel-to-wheel competition: each car is electronically released, at nine-second intervals, if the track is clear. But when the light turns green...
...half-mile track is a series of tight, tough curves-carrousels, S's, hairpins and hard rights and lefts-30 in all, with only 80 meters of straightaway in the whole labyrinth. Though the car can seldom reach 40 m.p.h., to the driver, with eyes only three feet above the asphalt, the sensation, if not the speed, is supersonic. He is competing with the clock. As he crosses the finish line, his time is shown in lighted, 2-ft.-high digital figures. First time around it may be a humiliating 98.46 sec. After a few more heart-in-mouth...
...here I am." Pause. "They told my parents that I'd never talk, but I talked at five. They said I'd never be able to drive, but after nine years of training my body"-he pants with the effort of speaking-"I can drive a car." Then he smiles-a triumphant grimace of a smile. "And now I'm getting married in three months...
Gottesman, a Geology major who had taken a year off, would have been a senior this year. He died on July 27, while on a geological field drip, when a car he was riding in overturned...