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...aims to sew up the lead in 1958. It will be even flashier, with a startling new grille, dual headlights and enormous taillights running horizontally across the rear end of the car. To compete with Chevy's new engine, Ford will bring out a bigger (332 cu. in.) V-8 for its Fairlane series. Another big change: Ford's 1958 Thunderbird will jump into the family-car class with a new 113-in.-wheelbase model that has a back seat...
...does not deter the road builders of 1957. Their rugged and powerful machines are slashing through the hill, cutting a 360-ft.-deep, 2,200-ft.-long scar -the biggest man-made road gash since the Panama Canal. All told, the machines will move 8,500,000 cu. yd. of earth, enough to cover Manhattan Island with a 4.5-in. layer...
...contracts, in which a penny's difference in the cost of moving a yard of dirt can be the margin between profit and loss, road builders must use all the machines - roughly $1 worth of equipment for every dollar's worth of earth moved (about 3 cu. yd. at current costs). On modern highways an average of a million cu. yd. a mile is moved...
...balloon rose almost vertically, swelling toward its full 2,000,000 cu. ft. as the pressure diminished. Kittinger kept reading over the radio an endless succession of instruments, stealing a glance once in a while through one of the six portholes. The sky was turning a darker blue, and Minnesota below him was fading to a featureless grey...
Every bit as careful as Sam, the Speedway management had also tried to play it safe. The limit on piston displacement for engines without superchargers had been lowered from 274.59 to 256.284 cu. in. (the limit for supercharged power plants was 170.856 cu. in.), on the theory that less power would mean less speed. It meant just the opposite. Smaller engines allowed smaller cars. The "bombs" that turned out for the 500 had never been lighter, had never handled so well on the turns. As a result, the first ten to finish all beat the late Bill Vukovich...