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...Mountains. The first leg of the five-day race ran through sand-dune country up into high (10,000 ft.), treacherous mountain passes to the Indian town of Oaxaca. Italy's Ascari skidded off the road and cracked up his Ferrari; the surprise first-day leader turned out to be the little (1½-liter) French Gordini, driven by an ex-motorcycle racer named Jean Behra, who set a blistering average of 89 m.p.h. Only 5 min. 37 sec. behind the Frenchman was Italy's Bracco, with Germany's Karl Kling, greying veteran of prewar races, right...
...shows the flecting landscape as ghostly gray and white. And as people pass through mirrors, the glass yields like water or shatters then mends again. And, after Orpheus, tries to follow Death through a looking-glass and fails, his reflection fades into a puddle of water in a sand dune...
...palace, neat but not gaudy, overlooking the oilfields. He collects falcons, saluki dogs and fast Arabian race horses. He has a private preserve of black buck gazelles imported from India, and is the only one allowed to shoot them. Like Kuwait's Abdullah and most of the sand-dune sheiks, he has never traveled beyond the Middle East and doesn't intend...
Winthrop Coach Dwight Hyde is starting Wally Breeley at quarterback, with another strong starter, Bill Hickey, in one of the other backfield posts. The Adams team, reinforced by Dune Stephens, a Colorado transfer student who will be playing halfback, is coached by Bob Coffey...
Second team lineup is Bill Conboy, Bill Eastham, Woody Kingman, john Bardis, John Beer, Doug Worrall, Jim Callahan, Hennon Morris, Dune Robertson, Hollis Hunnewell, Don Louria, Bill Letson Brcue White, Kit Liang, and Doug Purdy...