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...that dominated the 500 for years, there was Lloyd Ruby, who hit 165.2 m.p.h. in his American Red Ball Special powered by a rear-mounted Offy. For patriots, unhappy that foreign "sporty car" drivers in foreign machines have won the last two 500s, there was California's Dan Gurney, who blasted his American Eagle around the track at a fantastic 167.2 m.p.h.-demolishing the four-lap record set last year by Mario Andretti. And; for aficionados of sheer daring, there was Andretti himself...
...race was won by New Zealand's Denis Hulme, averaging 75.89 m.p.h. Much of the luster went off his victory in the uproar that followed. U.S. Driver Dan Gurney insisted: "Cars are meant to negotiate a track, not the other way around." But Claude Bourillot, president of the Federation Francais des Sports Automobiles, argued that most European tracks are 50 years behind the times. "We are," he said, "like aviators trying to land Boeing jets on the airfields...
...August, when Ace Driver Ken Miles was killed testing a new "J" car at Riverside, Calif. The J was intended to supersede the Mark II, but it developed bugs; so Ford had to go into Daytona with last year's Mark IIs. Even so, California's Dan Gurney won the pole position by clocking 119 m.p.h., and all six company Fords qualified among the twelve fastest cars on the starting grid-despite the fact that Ferrari had entered three new "P4s," 900 Ibs. lighter than the Mark IIs and with only 40 fewer horses under their hoods...
...close friend, John N. D. Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, said yesterday that Munn was "both a serious and jolly theologian in this course. He gave himself freely to the welfare of the College and all its inhabitants--young and old--and was a great stabilizing influence during the difficult war years...
...usual in so wide-ranging a story, TIME correspondents across the country sought out the facts from major airline executives, aircraft manufacturers, financial specialists and Government officials. Their reports provided the fresh basic material for Writer Gurney Breckenfeld and Editor Champ Clark. Breckenfeld, a World War II Air Force information officer, managed to get to Los Angeles to inspect the mock-up of Lockheed's supersonic transport a week before the strike started. A devoted air traveler, Breckenfeld tempers his enthusiasm with only one qualification. "Some airlines," he says, "serve better wines than others...