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Then on May 7, only hours after he had turned in the second fastest lap in Speedway history. Mike Spence was killed in a freak accident while testing teammate Greg Weld's turbine. The next day Weld, who had been slow all month, was released by STP, and Granatelli was left with 1966 winner Graham Hill, and four turbine cars...
...feet. At Mt. Vernon and North Champion Avenues in the Negro Near East Side, friendly crowds engulfed the car. Admirers fell over each other and into the motorcade's path; Kennedy aides had to scoop children from harm's way. One mother plunked her baby on Ethel's lap, trotted alongside for ten blocks while Ethel held the child. At one point, Bobby, his shirttails flying, his hair mussed, his cufflinks gone,* was hauled off the car bodily and had to be dragged back from the crowd's embrace. Ethel, two months pregnant, became faint and nauseated...
...back side of the seventh lap, McLoone and Baker both kicked past the Yalie who proceeded to fade out of sight. Baker and Hardin ran together until the top of the home stretch before the Englishman turned on the kick he supposedly doesn't have to clinch the meet...
...Baker and Roy Shaw bested the old mile record of 4:09.7 by more than four seconds as they blazed through a 57.4 final lap to finish...
...problem of what to do with Houghton School children while their new school is being constructed bounced back into the lap of the Cambridge City Council last night...