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Next day, at a Fourth of July segregationist rally at Atlanta's fairgrounds, three Negro youths were beaten with metal chairs in a melee that began when the Negroes and a white girl civil rights worker entered the grandstand. Forty whites chased the Negroes into a fenced corner, pommeled them until cops broke...
...Waiting is half the fun. Entertainers sing and clown while you queue up for a ride on the "People Wall." The moving grandstand slides you up into the Big Top to see a fast and furious film showing how IBM, and all of us, solve our problems...
Tall, mustachioed, and very British, Graham Hill would have cut a dashing figure at the winner's stand. But the fuel pump of his B.R.M. quit just 100 yds. past the spot where Gurney sat nursing his grief. In the grandstand, the fans began to get restless. Where was Gurney? Where was Hill? Where was anybody? At last, Bruce McLaren's Cooper cleared the crest of the last hill and started down the final straight. But McLaren was only coasting: his generator belt had parted and his engine was dead. Then came a sound that made McLaren swivel...
...bottom of the sixth, enormous bolts of lightning made the game some-what hazardous, and a heavy rain made it impossible to continue. After the sky cleared up briefly, the players rounded out the bottom of the sixth before an empty grandstand. YALE AB R H RBI Sewall, 3b 2 0 0 0 Bartlett, cf 3 0 0 0 Raymond, lf 3 2 1 0 Hunsaker, 1b 3 0 3 1 Levick, rf 2 0 0 0 Titus, c 3 0 1 1 Grasso, 2b 3 0 0 0 Cody, ss 2 0 0 0 Bourne...
...Catchers. Except for G.M. and Ford, which crouch like two huge beasts across the road, fair buildings are low and airy rather than tall or massive. Where in 1939 France's imposing showcase rose like a grandstand beside the Lagoon of Nations, now stands IBM's egg, poised above a fantastic forest of steel trees. Across the pool, hovers the huge coffin-on-props of the Bell Telephone building, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and Henry Dreyfus...