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Fast-moving Montgomery Ward still has some laps to travel before catching its main rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co. Reported Sears last week: 1956 sales totaled $3,555,684,148, for a jump of 7.5% in the year, and earnings were $164,816,293. Significantly, noted Sears, "increased competition in our...
Behind them, hard-driven cars were dropping out. The largest car in the race, Chevrolet's highly touted 4.6-liter "Super Sport" Corvette, lasted only 23 laps. Brakes locked, a fuel line broke, the ignition system went haywire-finally Drivers John Fitch and Piero Taruffi quit in despair. Before...
Only an Accident. For a long while, a 3.8-liter D-Jaguar clung close to the leading Maserati. Then its new-type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back. Maserati's most consistent racing competitor, a 3.4-liter Ferrari, had also slowed down to...
As Ron Delany runs, the spike-scarred boards of Madison Square Garden's track curl out eleven uneventful laps to the mile. Other athletes strain to feel the thin snap of the finish tape; Delany beats them to it with deceptive ease. In the mile run at the Knights...
More important than the Crimson's victory, however, was St. Lawrence's 3-1 upset of powerful Clarkson last night. As Clarkson was supposed to be a sure bet to go to Colorado and the Larries were the chief rival of the varsity's for the other position, this news...