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...behind. The starter's flag dropped-and the race seemed over before it really began. Blasting nearly full-bore into the shallow-banked turns, the lighter (by 600 Ibs.) Lotus-Fords made the U.S. cars look like dump trucks. After 20 miles, Clark and Gurney were already lapping the slowest Offies. Parnelli Jones gave up the chase with magneto failure on the 43rd lap. U.S.A.C. Sprint Champion Roger Mc-Cluskey rammed into California's Chuck Hulse, and both Offies cracked into the retaining wall at close to 100 m.p.h., although neither driver was hurt...
...Suddenly a great roar went up from the crowd. Clark's Lotus was spewing oil. A 10? connecting hose had given way. Now it was Gurney out front, gracefully threading through traffic like a patrolling turnpike cop. After 131 miles, only one other car was on the same lap: the white Offy of Texas' Veteran A. J. Foyt, 28, winner of the Indy 500 in 1961, two-time U.S.A.C. champion. At one point, Foyt closed to within 7 sec. But Gurney was boxed in. He broke clear and within ten laps the lead grew...
...approach to a movie is a study in agonizing intensity. Seated in the darkened theater, he holds on his lap a stenographer's note pad and jots down scribbles that look to anyone else like a kind of obscure Sanskrit patois. The picture itself is only part of his research. He wants every piece of material extant about the film-the original book, biographies of the performers, reports from correspondents on the making and makers of the picture, even handouts. Thus, when he wondered how some Japanese film makers got the effect of blood gushing from a samurai victim...
That left the responsibility for preventing a strike right in the lap of Congress, where President Kennedy had tossed it six weeks ago. Kennedy had urged that Congress empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to arbitrate the railway dispute. But the unions, insisting that the ICC is dominated by prejudiced members, lobbied frantically against the President's proposal. The result was that the Senate Commerce Committee dumped the Kennedy plan, substituted its own version...
...excitable out of water as he is exciting in it, Schollander practically swam every race in Tokyo. While an 18-year-old University of Southern California sophomore named Roy Saari churned through the seemingly endless laps of the 1,500-meter freestyle, Schollander leaped crazily along the edge of the pool, waving a white towel and yelling "Get going!" For 24 lengths, Saari lagged sadly behind the lap times set by Australia's John Konrads when he posted the world record of 17:11 three years ago. Then Saari spotted Schollander's frenzied cheerleading out of the corner...