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Newman appears, flashing his 1,000-watter at a kid who yells "Good luck!" and heads off to the starting line. He qualified his red, white and blue No. 33 in the second row, and should be among the leaders after the first lap. But the spark plugs foul as...
He drives a beautifully scripted race. After six laps he has pushed his car up to fifth. After ten laps he passes Slagle's TR8 for fourth place. He is third after eleven of the 18 laps, second after 13. He has, we learn later, broken the course record...
The strategy was also one of playing up the past. Reagan blamed the Democrats for getting the country into its current economic crisis. Said he on his final campaign swing: "We are clearing away the economic wreckage that was dumped in our laps."
During the intermissions of Parsifal, a young woman with a small monkey perched on her left shoulder paraded among the patrons in dinner jackets and evening gowns, eliciting some sidelong glances but not much else. Throughout a performance of Lohengrin, two women in the audience held hands and caressed one...
A Marine on leave almost ruined this year's race when he threw a government-issue smoke grenade over the fence with only eight laps to go. It billowed thick green smoke across the track and obscured the vision of the drivers cruising past at 190 miles per hour. Fortunately...