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...DeWayne ("Tiny") Lund, cocky, 265-Ib. stock-car racer who had never won a major championship: the $100,000 Daytona 500, by carefully conserving his fuel supply and wheeling his 1963 Ford sedan around the banked asphalt track at an average speed of 151.566 m.p.h. Lund earned the ride in the Ford when he risked his life to pull its intended driver. Marvin Panch, from the flaming wreckage of a Ford-engined Maserati during a practice run. The badly burned Panch asked that Lund be allowed to take his place as a reward. Lund's share of the prize...
...steady drizzle washed the high-banked oval track at Daytona Beach as the cars lined up for the 250-mile American Challenge Cup. It looked like a big day for Chevrolet's famed Corvette, flashiest and most powerful U.S. sportscar. No fewer than seven Corvettes were in the 14-car field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods. In the cockpits sat some of racing's top drivers, among them Indianapolis Veteran A. J. Foyt. Down went the flag. Off screamed the Corvettes. And zoom-a ringer...
Flying Squad. What Lauderdale was tired of, Daytona wanted-and it began a campaign to attract the collegians for the 1962 holidays. Daytona City Commissioner Stanley Nass got civic groups to agree to "welcome the youngsters, leave them alone and let them entertain themselves with the facilities we have." The city appropriated an extra $12,000 for its recreation fund. Nass hired Jazzman Dave Brubeck for a show, got together a music-making group called the Folksters, gave them a truck and made them a "flying squad." Last week, whenever Nass got a report that the boys and girls were...
...Cool 'Em Off." To Daytona's delight, the experiment seemed to be working out well. "Down in Lauderdale," explained a University of Pennsylvania girl, "if you walk on the sidewalk with a can of beer in your hand, they arrest you. But here they give you a chance." Average daily beer consumption was estimated at three cans per girl, nine per boy (few of the collegians had enough money to buy stronger stuff), and only a few had to be arrested for disorderly conduct...
Indeed, about the only sour note of the week came from the News, down south at Fort Lauderdale, which editorialized: "We're afraid the good citizens of Daytona will have to learn the hard...