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With a half-mile to go, Beatty's lead grew to half a lap, and 16,759 fans suddenly came alive. Throughout the last two laps, the stamping, clapping, cheering followed Beatty's steady course around the Chicago Stadium like a series of breakers rolling onto a beach. Beatty sailed through the tape, crossed himself, continued jog ging, and waved happily to the crowd. The judges announced his time: 8 min. 30.7 sec.-almost exactly according to plan and a new world record, by nearly 4 sec. Coach Igloi paid Beatty his supreme compliment. "He does," said Igloi...
...cars went into the second lap, a white Pontiac Tempest sedan hot-rodded past everyone into the lead. The Tempest is Pontiac's compact, normally has a four-cylinder engine, gentle springs, and all the aerodynamic qualities of a two-by-four. But some expert rebuilding and the addition of an optional, high-performance V-8 Pontiac engine was all that Driver Paul Goldsmith, 36, himself an Indianapolis driver, needed to leave the Sting Rays in his exhaust...
Their plans almost worked. Buchta trailed Hamlin and Meehan going into the final lap, but turned on a burst of speed that shot him past Hamlin with ten yards left in the race. Meehan also passed his teammate and finished 0.3 of a second behind Buchta's winning time...
...high guardrail. Jim Paschal's Plymouth spun out of control, turned four somersaults and plunged over a steep embankment. Incredibly, neither driver was badly hurt. Streaking through Riverside's tricky S-curves in third gear at more than 100 m.p.h., Gurney grabbed the lead on the 43rd lap. Over the next 142 laps, until he finally flashed across the finish line in front, Gurney relinquished his lead only three times-each time for a pit stop. His winning margin for the six-hour race: 36 sec. Waving a $13,600 check, Gurney beamed the happy smile...
...weather, flamethrowers sent balls of heat rolling over the flagstones in front of his nearby house so that the apostles could stand there barefoot without freezing to the rock. The apostles wore thermal underwear and sweat pants under their robes. Killing time, Martha of Bethany sat in the lap of the Apostle Philip while he read Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Pledge and she read John Updike's Rabbit...