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For the 150,000 Italians who jammed the city of Monza (pop. 69,000) one day last week, the final of the world championship motorcycle race was the sport event of the season. They got their lira's worth out of the race; it was a thriller. They also...
When Curli flourished his flag at the start, 39 speed-happy cyclists roared off around the treacherous four-mile asphalt course. Soon, as expected, the race settled down to a duel between Italy's Umberto Masetti, 23, riding a Gilera, and Britain's Geoffrey Duke, 27, on his...
Duke was soon careening around the turns at a hairbreadth 100 m.p.h., with Masetti just behind. On the tenth lap, Masetti gunned to the lead, scored the fastest round of the day: 118 m.p.h. But the effort burned him out. By the 16th lap, halfway through the 200-kilometer race...
Flagman Curli had just heard what seemed to him vitally important news: Cyclist Masetti had just become a father, and in the excitement of the moment, it seemed to Curli that father Masetti deserved to know at once. The officials made the only decision really possible: the race had ended...
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