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...television, the cars seem to glide through the turns, accelerating smoothly into the straightaways. But the roaring machines actually skid through each turn and make sickening little sideways hops towards the wall No one was injured in this year's race, but it's easy to see how Gordon Smylie's car lost traction in a turn during qualifying. Medics used four separate ambulances to pick up the pieces...
...Callahan's description of auto-racing "ghouls" illustrates the American fascination with violence. But printing action photos of Gordon Smiley being killed and lying dead on the pavement caters to the sickness that your article condemns...
...some left over for trying to puzzle out the world's mysteries in general, the odd otherness of the opposite sex in particular. He does not smoke pot, play bad music too loudly, or greatly imperil his own or anybody else's virginity. In short, Gregory (Gordon John Sinclair) is what one used to think of as a typical teen-age boy back in the days when adolescence was a goofy phase that adults could afford to indulge instead of a time bomb that needs to be defused. Gregory's Girl seems to exist in some Brigadoon...
...Gordon Liddy, 51, Hunt's partner and co-leader of burglary team. Privately took blame for botched job, volunteered to be shot. Refused to cooperate with prosecutors, thus spent more time in prison (52 months) than any other Watergate figure. His 1980 autobiography, Will, was bestseller (125,000 hard-cover copies). Popular on college lecture circuit, where he gets $4,500 per appearance. Lives with wife in Fort Washington, Md. Works as consultant to corporations on how to protect industrial secrets...
...outings at the Indianapolis 500, Gordon Johncock, 45, had been stymied by broken crankshafts, flat tires, dry gas tanks and fuel-pump failures. His one earlier Indy win, in 1973, had come in a race that was stopped by rain after 332.5 miles. "It seems throughout my career," he says, "that it hasn't been meant for me to run 500 miles." This year Johncock managed to hold on for a full-length victory, though the jaws of defeat were snapping close behind. With 13 laps left, Johncock's STP Wildcat-Cosworth was 12 sec. ahead...