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...plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls. Woodcutters prowled the thick jungle at will looking for hardwood cinnamon; hunters tracked boar and rabbit, and farmers tilled neat, geometric rice paddies in the rich lap of the foothills...
Andretti snaked around the 3.2-mile course at an average speed of 109 m.p.h., fought his way past tenacious Mark Donohue in a Formula A Lola-Chevrolet and then closed on the leader, Scotland's Jackie Stewart. Executing a neat passing maneuver on the 31st lap, he gunned by Stewart's blue Tyrrell-Ford and won going away. The second heat was more of the same as Andretti bested Stewart by a 12.3-sec. margin. After accepting his $39,400 winner's prize, Andretti suggested that the U.S. Formula A team could take some consolation from...
Says Morrow: "American Notes are fragments that you can seize upon and draw conclusions from. At best, they have a quality of surprise." He generally writes the notes at home, two cats on his lap and his wife Brooke, a former TIME researcher, near by in case an idea needs a test reaction. His current hobby is a survey of Howard Johnson's french-fried onion rings. Explains Morrow: "Their quality, like the rest of American life, varies enormously...
...squares his shoulders and waddles off to the altar-alone but hopeful. On the way he meets Henrietta, spilling tea at a party. As Elaine May plays her, Henrietta is a hilarious anthology of gaffes; when she smiles, lipstick enamels her teeth. When she rises from a table, her lap is upholstered with crumbs. Price tags cling to her new clothes; her fingers dangle from hapless hands, like stockings hung to dry. But she has one profound saving grace: wealth beyond avarice. "Let me take all this away from you," schemes her new suitor, and sweeps her off her purse...
...Penn's Karl Thornton was catching up in the last lap." he said, his voice growing in enthusiasm. "As Thornton passed him, he gave him some kind of elbow, a legal elbow, and put him out into the fourth lane. Enscoe won it easily after that. It was an incredible race...