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Harvard's mile relay team beat B.C. and finally broke 3.20 as three men ran legs under 50 seconds. Huvelle surpassed Robinson's anchor lap of 49.3 with a fast 49 flat, and Trey Burns sped to a 49.7. Frank Haggerty, who is not a 440 man, finished...
...felt rendering of Gypsy Rose Lee's admirable career. Her sportsmanship in visiting the Poon has certainly improved since she pushed Tony Curtis in the drank in Sex and the Single Girl. But then again, Miss Wood has come a long way since she sat on Santa Class's lap...
...Ferrari 330 P3 was quite a car: developed specifically to compete with Ford, it harbors beneath its streamlined, electric-red shell a massive 12-cylinder fuel-injection engine that generated 420 h.p., powered the 3-ft.-high machine to a record average of 106.1 m.p.h. in a casual qualifying lap...
Despite its convolutions, or rather because of them (they prohibit extreme speeds), Sebring has never been considered a particularly dangerous course. Nobody had been killed there in seven years-until last week. On the fourth lap, Robert McLean, a Ford dealer from Vancouver, B.C., was gearing down for the hairpin when his Canadian-owned Ford GT 40 careened into a phone pole and burst into flames. McLean died in the fire, but worse was to come. On the 200th lap, Pennsylvania's Mario Andretti tried to downshift his non-factory Ferrari from fourth to third, slammed the lever into...
...would have been a glorious victory for Ford. One by one, the miles and minutes took their toll of Ford's main competitors: the two Chaparrals were both out of the race by the second hour, and the Ferrari 330 P3 retired to the pits on the 172nd lap with a frozen gearbox. Andretti's accident took care of the rest; he was running third behind two Fords at the time of the crash, and the Porsche was in fourth place. The finish was a parade-Ford, Ford, Ford, Ford. The only really disappointed man on the team...