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Shame on you for favorably publicizing the traffic outlaws who run the Cannonball Dash [May 5] and subject a lot of non-contestants to risks that should go only with one of the world's most dangerous sports...
...racks at the city's Club Nautique, took them down the Mekong River and out to sea, where they were rescued. His daughter's husband, Pham Van Tinh, a Vietnamese air force pilot, escaped separately from Tan Son Nhut airbase. Under heavy fire, he made a dash for a twin-engine cargo plane, shot the lock off the door with his pistol and flew into Thailand without maps or direction, following the shoreline. Tinh did not know his wife got out until he spotted her in a Guam mess hall last week...
...Spring Show of Student Art. Evidently, as so often happens with student exhibits around here, there was a struggle to get the show together and officially approved. The Student's Association deserves a lot of support from other students for putting together an exciting show--one certainly worth the dash across the street from Lamont. Through June...
...Rick Cline and Jack May parked their pockmarked white Ferrari Dino in front of the Portofino Inn in Southern California's Redondo Beach. Having shaved one minute from the previous transcontinental record, the partners became undisputed holders of the 1975 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash...
Rabbit Hazard. In fact, the 18 finishers in last week's marathon, as well as many other racing aficionados worldwide, stoutly believe that the Atlantic-Pacific dash represents a blow for sanity; after all, the Interstate Highway system was designed for 70 m.p.h. travel and was later limited to maximum speeds of 55 m.p.h. Likening the speed curb to Prohibition, "which made criminals of us all," the ebullient Yates, who pooh-poohs the energy crisis, reasons that speed limits are "at best hypocritical, at the worst specious." In the spirit of Erwin George ("Cannonball") Baker, a fabled driver...