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...feel it," plays it crafty. Instead of "drafting"−a risky tactic Petty invented, in which he practically sits on an opponent's tail pipe, using the partial vacuum created by the lead car as a fuel-and engine-conserving tow−he hangs on Allison's flank and then passes him on the outside. When Allison regains the lead, Petty cuts inside and roars ahead for good on the eleventh lap. Aided by a crack pit crew who wipe his windshield, give him a drink of water, change the tires and fuel the car in 17 seconds...
...full flight down an Alp's snowy flank, Austria's Annemarie Proell resembles nothing so much as a controlled crash about to happen. Feet well apart, arms locked to her thighs, in an awkward-looking squat that offends purists, she rockets out of the starting gate toward the first turn. Her motives for that all-out start are direct: "I try to risk as much as possible in the first few gates," she says. "It makes the competition nervous-I know they watch...
Williams attacks his subject from the flank, through the invented journals and letters of Augustus' family, friends and enemies. He breathes life into Old Friend Maecenas, generous patron of the poet Horace but a terrible versifier himself, and the fluttery Ovid, burlesqued by Williams in a splendidly overblown poem. The most vivid character is Augustus' daughter Julia, a Becky Sharp of the Roman salon...
They do contain cuts of pork from the side and shoulder and cuts of beef from the brisket, chuck and flank. These cuts compose 85% of the wiener, including lean, fat, and moisture as it occurs naturally in the meat. The other 15% consists of 10% added water to facilitate mixing and 5% salt, sugar, spice and cure...
...along most rural roads by the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, and vehemently opposed by Transportation Secretary John Volpe, the unsightly signs still stand. With curious logic, the new House bill will allow "directional signs" to remain indefinitely. In fact the House bill would allow six of them to flank each mile of rural road...