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...times his co-drivers wrecked the cars. At the Dutch Grand Prix in 1960, the brakes failed on his British-built BRM; the car hurtled off the track killing a spectator and breaking Gurney's left arm. Nowhere has Gurney's luck been worse than at his home-town Riverside International Raceway, a course he knows blindfolded. Last March, he won a $13,250 stock car race, but his Chevrolet was disqualified for being "gutted" to reduce its weight. Last October, Gurney was leading the Riverside Grand Prix when a 10? part broke on his Lotus, costing...
...last year, were thirsting for revenge. "We want this game so badly we can taste it," said Giant Coach Allie Sherman, and 65,000 partisan fans braved Yankee Stadium's 13° cold to howl for Green Bay blood. Around New York the "smart" money was on the home-town Giants. The Packers were tired, the skeptics said. Nobody could pass like the Giants' Y. A. Tittle, nobody could catch like Del Shofner...
...home-town Green Bay boy now transplanted, I have told the marvelous story of the Packers many times, and thanks to your wonderful article it now is told...
...Shuman's fiery urging, Farm Bureau delegates approved a massive home-town campaign to convince farmers they should vote no in a national wheat referendum next spring. By their vote then, U.S. farmers will decide whether a rigid new wheat control and marketing plan should go into effect in 1964. The plan, hatched by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, calls for double-barreled controls-with Government limits not only on acreage planted in wheat, but on the amount of wheat a farmer can sell at top price-support levels...
...like the fire department. Look around and you'll see even the mayor and councilmen in many of these towns are big guns in the Guard. If they aren't, they probably once were. And if you step on the Guard, you're stepping on the home-town folks...