Word: craig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Art Arfons, 39, new land speed-record holder, who drove his jet-powered Green Monster at 576.5 m.p.h. last week to recapture the record that Craig Breedlove had taken from him only five days before (TIME, Nov. 12), and June Arfons, 41: their third child, first daughter; in Akron, Ohio...
Salt & Stabilizers. And then there was Craig Breedlove, 28, an ex-fireman from Palos Verdes, Calif., whose addiction to speed has cost him his life savings, one marriage, and very nearly his life. In 1963, Breedlove set a land speed record of 407 m.p.h. in his three-wheeled Spirit of America, then raised the mark to 526 m.p.h. last year before Art Arfons took it away with a 536-m.p.h. clocking. Breedlove wrecked the original Spirit by driving it into a salt pond, and this fall he was back at Bonneville with a four-wheeled, jet-powered monstrosity that looked...
...could do just to stay on the ground. Trying for a record last month, Craig discovered himself airborne at 600 m.p.h. Both his braking parachutes blew clear off the car, and he finally managed to bring the runaway machine to a stop just 300 ft. short of the same salt pond in which he had drowned its daddy. Shaken but unhurt, Breedlove riveted two stabilizing wings on Spirit's nose, and last week he was back for another try. Waving to his crew, Breedlove pushed the throttle forward, and Spirit shot off across the flats, trailing a huge rooster...
...tucked her long black hair into her husband's blue crash helmet, strapped herself into Spirit's cockpit and roared off across the salt at 308.56 m.p.h. to break the ladies' record held by Betty Skelton. If anything, she took the experience more casually than Craig. "I wasn't a bit scared," she insisted. "You go so fast you don't have time to worry...
...Yard meet, Holworthy and Stoughton battled for position, and finished first-second, way ahead of the rest of the field. Craig Lewis of Grays was first...