Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The British Open golf championship from Southport, England, and the Daytona Firecracker "400" stock-car championship from Florida...
...Florida's Jimmy Wynne, 35: the Gateway Marathon, a 180-mile speedboat race from West Palm Beach to Grand Bahama Island and back. Driving his latest creation, Maritime, a 32-ft. aluminum hull powered by two supercharged 400-h.p. Daytona engines, Miami Designer Wynne ripped through the churning Gulf Stream at speeds up to 60 m.p.h., crossed the finish line in 3 hr. 41 min. 10 sec. to beat Don Aronow's G08-a deep-V Donzi whose fiberglass hull Wynne also helped design...
...supposed to be a private war -Ferrari v. Ford, just like last month's Daytona Continental. But then some interlopers appeared. There were the Ferraris and the Ford GTs, plowing around Sebring as if they had the course all to themselves, when all of a sudden - zip! zip! - a couple of monstrosities from Texas went scooting past...
...vast majority of students, the spring break is still a time for the pursuit of pleasure. Thousands of kids are streaming into the Florida beach towns of Fort Lauderdale (where boys express their goal as "beach, broads and booze") and Daytona Beach (where the theme is "sex, sand, suds and sun"), even though the Ivy League considers such places to be Out. "Cliffies look down on the kind of orgy that goes on in some sections of Florida," explains Radcliffe Junior Ellen Lake. Stephen Cotler, an editor of the Harvard Crimson, observes that it's not chic...
...brash Texan who designed the Ford-powered Cobra, a solid contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy too. His plan: turn California's Dan Gurney loose in a Lotus-Ford sprint car as a "rabbit...