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...double assassination stunned the racing world. Known as the "Speed King," Thompson had established nearly 500 racing and endurance records and had set the standards for three generations of hot rodders. In 1960 he became the first American to travel over 400 m.p.h. on land when his specially designed four-engine Challenger I clocked 406.6 m.p.h. at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. He started Mickey Thompson Enterprises, a custom auto-parts manufacturer, in Long Beach, Calif. Ten years ago Thompson branched into sports promotion and became the leading sponsor of motor-sports events at arenas like the Los Angeles...
...Marino acknowledges, blacks and Catholicism in the U.S. have never been completely at ease with each other. In the Republic's early days, blacks found more welcoming accommodation for their religious sensibilities in Protestant styles of worship and theology. Catholics, themselves strangers in a strange land, did not proselytize among slaves until they were freed after the Civil War. Today, only 5% of American blacks are Catholic, and the 1.5 million black Catholics make up 2.8% of the American church. Representation in the clergy is worse. The 350 black priests and 700 black nuns represent less than...
...this spring break plan on partying it up along the beaches. A number of Harvard sports teams are heading south or west for special exhibition seasons and warm-weather training. The softball team will be practicing in Myrtle Beach, S.C., the women's lacrosse team will be in Mary-land and both the men's and women's tennis teams are flying out to California. In addition, Constan and his roommates may run into the rugby club in New Orleans...
...Crimson has long had a running antagonism with Eliot House; once, in my senior year, the editors referred to the residents as "little Podhoretzes" whose land-holdings in Latin America are only outnumbered by their investments in South Africa. I personally am getting a little tired of it, and I wish the staff would be at least more subtle in their bias, if not less biased at root. Paul T. Keenan...
Given the EPA restrictions, City Councillor Walsh says he thinks underground parking could be a solution. "The land under the street belongs to the city, so I suppose we could get a private developer to do it and work out a deal to the benefit of the city and neighbors," Walsh says...