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...believe me," he said, "just test me"-and, sure enough, he banished Jim Hurtubise's leaky Novi on the 101st lap. But now, with Jones's Offy laying a coat of slippery oil all around the track, Fengler seemed not to notice. The flagman did: after Eddie Sachs skidded wildly on Lap 188 and smashed into the retaining wall, he grabbed a black flag and started to wave it at Jones. Fengler rushed up and told him to put it away. That set off an arm-waving argument between Agajanian and Chapman-in full view of everyone...
...shack in the railroad yards at Antigo, Wis. last week sat four railroadmen: a fireman, a conductor, a brakeman and a flagman. All together, they collect pay totaling $110 a day, not counting fringe benefits. Their job: doing nothing. Earlier this year, the Chicago & North Western Railroad decided to eliminate one of the two switching locomotives at Antigo because there was not enough work to keep them busy. But the road may not remove the idled crew without union permission, and permission had not been given...
...Tower, 15 car lengths from the entrance to the station, in little more time than it takes to say the Lord's Prayer. Conductor, flagman and brakemen went through the head cars, coolly instructing passengers to lie down or brace themselves in their seats. Still whistling wildly, the train jolted into a switch with its coaches careering behind it, raced down its appointed track and into the terminal like some vast, noisy and hellish projectile. Engineer Brower was seen gesticulating from the cab like a madman as he went by. At that moment, it seemed that nothing could prevent...
...Monza (pop. 69,000) one day last week, the final of the world championship motorcycle race was the sport event of the season. They got their lira's worth out of the race; it was a thriller. They also got an unscheduled added attraction in the performance of Flagman Giovanni Curli, official in charge of signaling the start and finish. Flagman Curli literally stopped the show...
...Flagman Curli had just heard what seemed to him vitally important news: Cyclist Masetti had just become a father, and in the excitement of the moment, it seemed to Curli that father Masetti deserved to know at once. The officials made the only decision really possible: the race had ended where the flagman stopped it. That gave the race to Duke, but the world title to Masetti, on points...