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...keep the sheer face of Contractor's Hill from sliding into the vital Gaillard Cut (TIME, May 10) and blocking the Panama Canal, the Canal Co. called for emergency bidding on a contract for the removal of some 2,000,000 cu. yds. of the rocky hill. Seven contracting firms, among them Morrison-Knudsen, world's greatest earth mover, rushed engineers to the canal to study the great fissure splitting the hill. But it was the young and aggressive Tecon Corp. of Dallas that put in the winning offer, 15 minutes before the bidding closed last week...
...take on anything") is headed by Clint Murchison Jr., 30-year-old son of the multimillionaire Texas wheeler-dealer (TIME, May 24). Eager for the worldwide attention that the job will create, up-and-coming Tecon agreed to move soft shale from the hill at $1.06 a cu. yd., rock at $1.46, and to finish the job in 15 months. Nobody knew exactly how much shale and how much rock would have to be removed to make the canal safe, but official estimates ran as high as a total of 2,350,000 cu. yds. Tecon will probably collect around...
...stocky little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.) motor bug. As a peacetime Army pilot in the '20s, he flew airplanes for a while, but gave them up as "too dangerous." Swarthout found a substitute in something closer to the ground by turning auto racer in big (270 cu. in. cylinder displacement), standard racing cars, then gave them up for earth-hugging midget (up to 145 cu. in.) racing. Last week, at Brawley, Calif., 50-year-old Ward Swarthout, now a grandfather, was happily racing just a couple of inches off the ground in the tiniest of all racers...
...others, has imposed stringent limits on size and engine displacement for the racers. The buglike cars must be no longer than 5 ft., no higher than 34 in., must have a wheel spread of no more than 42 in. Valve-in-head engines may have a maximum of 18 cu. in. of total cylinder displacement; overhead valve engines are limited to 13½ cu...
...against time. Tooling his Austin-Healey sports car (2,100 Ibs., 90-in. wheelbase, 90 h.p.) around an oval track, Designer Donald M. Healey and his crew of drivers kept it going for 30 hours on end to set 60 new international endurance records for Class D (122-183 cu. in. engine-displacement) cars. Record to impress sports-car fans most: 3,000 miles at an average 104.21 m.p.h. Record to impress Sunday drivers most: the first 500 miles (average 127 m.p.h.) at a gas consumption of 22.3 miles per gallon...