Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Landau had to run six races in the two days, a qualifying heat and a semi-final heat in each event, as well as the finals...
...layoff proved no detriment to the speedy junior. In his first race Friday, Landau loafed through a qualifying heat in the highs, a heat in which four of the six would qualify for the finals. However, he was soundly trounced for first place by B.U.'s Dave Settele, an outcome which caused some concern for his coaches...
...then came back to win his qualifying heat in the lows in a somewhat unspectacular 24 seconds. But it was the last of his three Friday races which proved conclusively that Landau was in top form...
With the low hurdle field narrowed by the qualifying heat, and only three of the six in each semi-final heat qualifying for the finals, Landau took no chances. He asserted himself from the start and won with ease in 23.0 seconds, breaking the Crimson mark of 23.4 seconds set by Bob Rittenburg in 1955. At that, according to his coach, Bill McCurdy, Landau appeared eased up at the finish...
Across the Gobi they sputtered. The drivers soon found that the trial was as much a test of men as machines. Dried out by the desert, the travelers drank the oily water from their radiators to keep alive. They used blowtorches to heat their meals when they could not bear using camel dung as fuel. Bridges collapsed under them, their cars sank hub deep in mud or sand, brakes gave way and the cars slid down steep, rocky hillsides. The Tri-Contal gave up its tiny ghost, but the other four somehow made it to the Siberian border...