Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever seen whose antiquities are not on display as relics but are in daily use." People he meets on a nearby kibbutz work in the fields until the afternoon, then listen to Mozart and discuss nuances of Goethe. An Arab who is mildly sym pathetic to Israel has his car blown apart by terrorists; Israelis confide pro-Palestinian sympathies. The nation, demoralized by the Yom Kippur War, is also torn-and sometimes transfigured-by diversity. Young violinists audition for Isaac Stern ("a death-defying act on four taut strings") while soldiers patrol gardens and political hawks call for takeovers...
...prepare yourself and your car in order to drive at the absolute limit, to be on the edge. The whole effort is done so that you can reach the point where it becomes dangerous...
...fear I have is the knowledge that I can be killed any time in a racing car. Because I enormously enjoy life, it makes me very sad that I have to live under that cloud all the time...
...second lap, a rear wheel fell off Lauda's car and he skidded into a guardrail. His car burst into flames, searing his lungs with intense heat and poisonous flames from the volatile fuel. Unable to trigger the car's fire extinguisher, Lauda lay trapped while three fellow drivers struggled to free him. His face and head were badly burned and disfigured, the oxygen count in his blood fell below the level necessary, in theory at least, to sustain life...
...Precisely six weeks after his accident, he entered the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and finished fourth. But first had come a terrifying practice round. Said Lauda: "It was raining, really horrible conditions, and I had to go out to see if I could still do my work. The car was aquaplaning. I was really scared and I stopped. But the next day, it was dry, so I got in the car. It took me 15 laps to be able to start sliding to the guardrail again, but I did it. I was not scared; I could drive again...