Word: daytona
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Welz was drafted in the fifth round by the Tigers last year in the college draft, and received a package deal which was worth about $30,000. Three days after the Yale game he reported to the Daytona Beach Islanders in the Class A Florida State League, and was their regular first baseman the remainder of the summer. He played 78 games, in the ball parks which house big leaguers in the spring. His statistics include six homers, 25 rbi's, 42 walks and runs, 79 strikeouts, and a .247 batting average. Slumps at the start and the end hurt...
MARJORIE WHITTEMORE Daytona Beach...
Before last week's 24-hour Daytona Continental road race even ended, a group of grim-faced Ford Motor Co. officials boarded a plane for Detroit, carrying a dozen battered 14-inch rods of steel. The rods were power output shafts for the transmissions of six 490-h.p. Mark II racers that Ford had entered in the season's first big sports-car race-with high hopes of retaining the world manufacturers' championship it had wrested away from Italy's Enzo Ferrari last year with victories at Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans. Ford had earmarked...
Ford's woes actually started last August, when Ace Driver Ken Miles was killed testing a new "J" car at Riverside, Calif. The J was intended to supersede the Mark II, but it developed bugs; so Ford had to go into Daytona with last year's Mark IIs. Even so, California's Dan Gurney won the pole position by clocking 119 m.p.h., and all six company Fords qualified among the twelve fastest cars on the starting grid-despite the fact that Ferrari had entered three new "P4s," 900 Ibs. lighter than the Mark IIs and with only...
...things quite differently. In Denver, irate women organized a large-scale boycott of major grocery stores and chanting female pickets helped persuade two chains to cut some prices by as much as 20%. Emboldened by their success, similar groups popped up in such cities as Buffalo, Baton Rouge, Detroit, Daytona Beach, Dallas, Houston, Albuquerque and parts of Los Angeles County. A group of Denver women, led by Mrs. Ruth Kane of suburban Aurora, set up a National Housewives for Lower Food Prices, filed incorporation papers with the Colorado secretary of state. Actually, says Campbell Soup President W. B. Murphy, chairman...