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Fraser, 74 miles across the Rockies. The President's car buzzed along at 50 m.p.h., and out on the end of the whip, press cars speeded up to 65 and 70 to catch up after the hairpin turns...
...test of cool driving skill and hot sports cars, Italy's Mille Miglia ranks with the world's toughest races. The 950-mile course-from Brescia to Rome and back -runs over the hairpin turns of four rugged mountain passes (one so grim that it inspired some of Dante's Inferno), through scores of towns and villages, and along straight ribbons of road where the racers hit it up as high as 150 m.p.h...
...Hairpin Code. He first worked as a spy during World War II, when he slipped word of German transport movements to the Communist Party. Soon, with his brother Martin and others, he was dealing in Swedish military secrets and conspiring directly with agents working out of the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung...
...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...