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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, 47, likes to rev up engines and tinker with antique cars. Even now he is busy restoring one of the three venerable Lancias that he keeps on his sheep ranch in Victoria. His latest plan was to drive a 1933 Alfa Romeo in a four-lap vintage-car exhibition at Melbourne's Sandown Park-but at the last moment he changed his mind. Instead, togged out in a powder blue racing suit and goggles last week, he climbed beside three-time World Champion Jack Brabham. As the Alfa touched speeds of 100 m.p.h., the announcer...
Malibu Grand Prix is the name of the game, and it is not tame-though it may be less hazardous than roller-coaster riding. No mini-Mario has been killed or seriously injured in the 6 million Malibu laps to date (though one nervous driver sprained a finger on the steering wheel, and several speeders have crashed through a fence). After buying tickets ($1.25 a lap) and getting instructions on safety regulations and the operation of the car, drivers buckle into Bell helmets and safety belts to await the red, amber and green signal light at the starting line. There...
...prizes. Inevitably, in Southern California, the sport attracts non-track stars, notably James Garner, Connie Stevens, Flip Wilson (he didn't flip), David Cassidy and sundry rockers, who to date have won no prizes. Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler went off the track on his first lap. But the best customers, the Malibu managers maintain, are the nonfamous people like the 42-year-old woman who set a track record-Alltime Slowest-on her first time out. She did the first 800-meter lap in 212 sec.-equivalent to 6½ m.p.h.-thereby qualifying for the Guinness Book of World...
Although HIID has been able to expand its overseas commitments, institute officials emphasize that partially because of the shortage of funding, contracts are not simply being dumped in Harvard's lap as they once were. "At one time, we were sufficiently unique and there was limited competition, so that many, many projects were brought to Harvard and only a few were carefully selected," Eddison says. "To some extent, people still come to us because we're known for what we've done, but when we want to move into new fields, it's much harder. There, we have...
During the last lap of his run for the presidency, Jimmy Carter was delighted to accept the belated support of organized labor. Once in the Oval Office, however, the conservative Georgia Democrat spent much time soothing largely Republican businessmen, while seeming to slight all sorts of cherished labor goals. Reflecting on Carter's lack of concern for such labor pets as common situs picketing, which would have enabled a single union to shut down a construction site, AFL-CIO President George Meany groused that Carter's record on labor legislation was "a lot of talking but very little...