Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went wrong from the start. One team of four set off in mid-afternoon in a rented yellow Morris Marina to strike at the Nicosia residence of Israeli Ambassador Rahamim Timor. Caught in heavy traffic that threatened to wreck their timetable, the Arabs raced conspicuously down the oncoming traffic lane of Grivas Avenue and through a series of red traffic lights. Other cars had to brake suddenly to avoid collisions, and one of these cars was driven by an off-duty policeman. He immediately alerted headquarters to have the "crazy driver" of the Morris picked up "before he kills someone...
Race day in North Wilkesboro dawns gray and sullen. Heavy rains have turned the red clay infield into an axle-deep quagmire. At noon, ten Petty crewmen, proud as Praetorian Guards, push his glittering racer down pit lane for inspection. At 1:20 p.m. Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver...
Those who hope to travel down memory lane with the score will find much of it a dusty detour. Only Alice Blue Gown, You Made Me Love You and the title song have survived 1919 with melodic vitality. Thanks be to Peter Gennaro's dance numbers for some lively eye openers at points in the story where one might be strongly tempted to doze off. They are executed with zest and finesse, and one number, The Riviera Rage, also possesses a saucy elegance...
...immediate area, including German autobahns and Swiss autoroutes that put Frankfurt and Basel only two hours away. (Ironically, it is easier for an Alsatian to travel out of France than to his own capital: Paris is 200 miles and a five-hour drive away, on a treacherous, obsolete two-lane highway.) The handsome new Entzheim Airport, with runways big enough to handle international jet traffic, has seven flights a day to Paris, as well as daily flights to London, Brussels and Milan...
...final went to Curtis Haydon of Princeton, as the diminutive distance freestyler pulled away from Tom Schmidt of South Carolina to lower the Eastern record he set in the event last year to an excellent 4:32.915. Mitchell, swimming in the outside lane, was separated by Schmidt and Haydon from his main competition and finished sixth...