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...bank.) Last year Ford laid out $5,000 per car souping up its racing engines, only to lose the "stock car" championship to Chrysler, which installed custom-built, $12,000 "hemispherical-head" engines in its Plymouths. That was too heady for Bill France, owner of Florida's Daytona International Speedway and president of NASCAR, who has the funny idea that somebody besides a factory ought to be able to compete in the contest. He banned the "hemi-head"-which put Chrysler in such a huff that it refused to race at all at this year's Daytona Speed...
...Houston's A. J. Foyt, 29: the Firecracker 400 stock-car race, averaging 151.4 m.p.h. in a 1964 Dodge to edge North Carolina's Bobby Isaac by less than the length of a car hood; at Daytona Beach, Fla. The U.S. Auto Club racing champion, winner of the 1964 Indianapolis 500, Foyt once again demonstrated his amazing versatility: alternating between sports cars, stock cars, sprint cars and big Offenhauser-powered Indy roadsters, Foyt has failed to win only two of the races he has entered this year...
...notable feature of the Lauderdale or Daytona vacation, perhaps like almost any vacation, is the remarkable speeding-up of life. The steps in a re- lationship between a boy and girl are shortened considerably, and sex becomes an open and important concern of all. Relationships are measured by both male and female visitors purely in terms of "conquests," and they are more functional than meaningful...
...that things like the Daytona riots develop. After being closed in by three days of bad weather, the natives became restless. When a policeman tried to stop them from tossing a girl up into the air on a blanket, a huge chant of "Go to hell" broke out. By the end of vacation, Daytona police had arrested an average of 100 students a day. Until they realized that it would end up costing them a great deal of money, most people thought it pretty exciting to be thrown in jail overnight, and it was definitely the way to be "cool...
...original home of the spring fling in Florida is, of course, Fort Lauderdale, which was featured in Max Shulman's book Where the Boys Are and the movie starring Connie Francis. But after the 1961 Lauderdale riots, Daytona invited the college students to come there and each resort has by this time developed its own particular personality for the collegians' stay...