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The championships-sixth in world competition, and first to be held in the U.S.-drifted through three weeks of score-tallying before individual victors could be determined: 23-year-old ex-Paratrooper Jim Arender of Tulsa, Okla., for the men; Mrs. Muriel Simbro of Van Nuys, Calif., for the women...
The two-inch cars on the HO-scale track that raced a scale Mille Miglia, safe-driving obstacle course and drag strip for the "Grand National" championship were the products of the Aurora Plastics Corp., which joined with the Ford Motor Co. in organizing an elimination contest enlisting 1,000...
Died. Dean Bartlett Cromwell, 82, longtime track coach at the University of Southern California, who from 1909 to 1948 produced teams that won more national championships (twelve) and more individual honors (among his champions: World Record Sprinters Charlie Paddock, Frank Wycoff, Mel Patton) than any other coach; of a heart...
Hung Up to Dry. To Idemitsu, who champions the cause of keeping Japan's "racial capital" intact, all other major Japanese oil companies are somehow tainted because Western companies hold substantial interests in them. Idemitsu stock is owned 40% by the Idemitsu family and 60% by the company'...
Big-time bicycle racing is no sport for the squeamish. Perilous and punishing, it promises lung-searing fatigue, bone-smashing crashes, and the kind of nasty guerrilla warfare among competitors better employed in the jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in...