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...rabbits and horned lizards seeking shade; by night, the only noise was the sound of coyotes howling. Now the dunes reverberate with the sound of engines rev ving and backfiring. These are the echoes of the desert dragster, practitioner of the West's newest, and hottest, fad - desert drag and dune racing...
Next came the "drag." Flooring their buggies from a standstill, the drivers made their huge tires bite into the sand like shoveling Seabees, then roared down the ⅛-mile course at speeds that approached 100 m.p.h. Blue ribbon for the top class in both events went to Herman Booy, a 29-year-old rosebush grower from San Jacinto, who won by going to great lengths. Instead of the usual 96-in. chassis, he struck a new-and better-balance by lengthening it an extra...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Three seasonal championship contests: Winter National Drag Racing, National Outdoor Speed Skating and North American Tobogganing...
...likely. While most scientists found no reason to doubt Kotelnikov's figures, they did not share his surprise. Records of solar and lunar eclipses from as far back as 500 B.C. prove that days have been lengthening by an average of 1.8 milliseconds every century as tidal drag on the earth caused by both the moon and sun gradually slows terrestrial rotation. The same records confirm that sudden changes in the rate of slowdown have occurred before, probably because of varying interaction between the earth's mantle and its molten core, or shifts in atmosphere circulation and ocean...
Cracking the Cranium. The idea behind the newest games seems to be: Make them impossible, or at least interminable. Strategy games such as Diplomacy (TIME, Dec. 13, 1963) often drag on for eight hours, can devour a whole weekend. War games, notably Avalon Hill's Waterloo, Stalingrad and Gettysburg, allow a player to second-guess Napoleon, Hitler or Lee, and, if successful, reverse the course of history...