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Refueling in 22 Seconds. Some of the wise money was bet on cyclists using the hardy Nortons and other British makes (Triumphs, BSAs); Nortons have won in four of the last six Nationals. But no machine was better than its rider or his breaks. There were three deaths, a cracked skull, one broken leg. The race's worst accident came when a spectator stepped out unwarily into the path of Clifford Farwell; both the spectator and Cyclist Farwell were killed...
Tourists were already speeding along the road. Dominici stopped a passing cyclist and sent him for the gendarmerie in Forcalquier, seven miles away. The cops failed at first to identify the dead; there were no passports or other papers. Then they found a child's exercise book. On the cover was written: Name: Elizabeth Drummond Form III. Subject: Summer Holiday. Parent: Jack Drummond...
...people thought him. As relaxation from his more ambitious oils, Marquet had strolled the streets of Paris, doing maliciously observant sketches of the people he saw. In a few deft strokes, a blob of black ink or a casual crosshatching, he caught the posture and movement of a speeding cyclist, a barmaid scratching her head, an old fiacre driver waiting for a fare, a bemused, potbellied pedestrian...
...amateur female cyclist, one of the few, rare and odd species of animal known to man, I wish to praise, commend and cheer your brief but wonderful July 16 article on the beginning of the Tour de France...
...balmy afternoon, the cyclist can see the old-world North End of Boston, and historic churches and churchyards; or he can gad about the local colleges, such as MIT, Boston College, and Simmons. The U. S. Frigate Constitution--"Old Ironsides"--is open to the public gaze in the Boston Navy Yard...