Word: hairpins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second heat was a poled jump. She was still jumping eight gates down, cutting the corners high, racing with her skis flat rather than losing time by edging them for more control. She fairly whistled with speed as she zipped across a bridge, cut in & out of a hairpin turn. The knowing crowd was yelling itself hoarse; no one had ever seen anything quite like it. Andy's time: 1:03.4, a full two seconds faster than any of the world's best women skiers had been able to do all day. The feat was comparable...
...National Automobile Association. Competing with Mexican speed demons for $68,000 in prizes-and the glory of beating some of the world's nerviest racers to Ciudad Juarez-were two-man teams from the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, France and Italy. Ahead of them were the hairpin curves, roller-coaster dips and erratic paving of the Pan-American highway, bone-jarring enough at tourist speeds, and highly dangerous for even the most experienced racer...
...than half an hour after the start a Guatemalan, burning up the road in a new Lincoln, missed a turn and was hauled out, fatally injured, from the smoking wreck. The Cadillac Coche México, hightailing southward from Ciudad Juarez at better than 100 m.p.h., screeched off a hairpin curve, rolled over three times into a rocky ditch. The drivers, unhurt, crawled back, started the engine, and somehow finished the day's lap-in 69th place. In his 1950 Cadillac, ex-Pilot William Sterling of El Paso paced the pack over the first 228 miles at an average...