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Stunt Driving. Which is the real Gene Hackman? The decent, gentle fellow in Father or the raw, aggressive one in Connection? Answer: A little of both. Hackman retains much of the flavor of his small-town upbringing in Danville, Ill. Away from the set he spends most of his time lazing with his family in his Tudor-style home in the San Fernando Valley. At the same time, he has "an affinity for certain dangers." These used to include motorcycle and auto racing (he did about half of his own stunt driving in Connection), but now are limited mostly...
Setting the Pace. For Hooker, the strike furnished a good excuse to close the old-fashioned Telegraph and shift much of his editorial force to the more efficient Racing Form, a computerized operation. The Form will retain much of the Telegraph's flavor. "Chart Callers," for example, will still encapsulate the drama of a race with the same terse economy they exercised in each issue of the Telegraph: "SOLAR NAIL saved ground from the start, got through rallying in the stretch and outgamed ODDS HAVE IT to the wire." Or "BOBS B BEES quickest to begin, moved...
Chicagoan Carl Haas, manager of a Lola team. "It's a social event, just like Le Mans. It's a bit of a mecca. It's got its own sort of flavor." In fact it sometimes seems that the race is a secondary event, little more than a 100-decibel background for the real thing: drinking, talking and gawking, or in the long stretches of the night, cooking steaks over flickering grills and cracking yet another sixpack...
Trading in the commodity "pits" still has a 19th century flavor. To critics it has long seemed nothing but a gigantic gambling game; in his 1896 Cross of Gold speech, William Jennings Bryan grumbled about "the man who goes on the Board of Trade and bets on the price of grain." In fact, trading is composed not only of outright speculation but of hedging operations by such agribusiness giants as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats, which trade in future contracts as a means of protecting themselves against possible inventory losses due to the frequently violent price fluctuations of farm goods...
...least to this reader that the answer to (2) might well also be positive. The statement in your letter, that "while the difference may be more or less genetic, we do not, at this time, have the data to permit a further conclusion," leaves me with the same flavor. As close reading of paragraphs 5 and 6 of my letter will show, it was the support (or lack thereof) of this second proposition to which my "sophomore" quip referred...