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...muzzy memories of the vaudeville circuit where she was a child star, just as Playwright Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, once was. June finds the marathon degrading and unpalatable, but hunger makes her stomach it. From her partner, Lee Allen, she learns contest protocol: about the "horses" who drag-carry their sleeping partners around the floor with proud belligerence, and about the clowns who must check out after 1,000 hours because clowns are not supposed to win, and about the quitters who "punk out." She jitterbugs in the "sprints," scrambles for tossed coins. Tricked by the horses, taunted...
...automakers: the nation's 300,000 hot rodders. It has a five-man team that visits hot-rod exhibits and rallies around the country, exhibiting five hot rods made from standard Ford autos and sometimes displaying Ford's biggest teaser: a three-eighths scale model of a drag racer designed by Ford stylists and called the Twister, which Ford may one day produce commercially. Soon, Ford intends to market "Cobra kits" that will enable hot rodders to modify standard Ford engines for high-performance events...
...Incredible Journey. Here comes Christmas, and with it an annual problem: what to do with the kids when the holidays start to drag. But don't worry. Good old Walt Disney has saved the day again, this time with a really charming little picture about pets...
...gags go downhill the rest of the way. The mercenary motorists keep their secret from the police, and thus begins an all-day drag race through Southern California to see who gets to the loot first. Accompanying them, or sucked up in transit, are Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Dick Shawn, Edie Adams, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas -and finally Spencer Tracy, of all people, as a fairly corruptible sheriff
...first six Trident Scholars are steaming in deep waters. Midshipman Clark Graham, who is also captain of the squash team, is studying ways to reduce underwater boundary-layer drag on submarines, for example. Others are pondering modern Argentine history, the future use of lasers in naval gunnery, the effect of radiation on transistors, the accuracy of navigational methods, and a potential heteropoly acid combining gallium and tungsten. The young scholars range far off base, from the Bell Telephone labs to a nuclear sub cruise...