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...next year. Herne says that like every racing driver, he depends on two qualities to be competitive: car control and strategy. Also like every other driver in this frequently over-romanticized sport, he must face the very real possibility of injury. "My first year I had a crash at Lime Rock[a Connecticut track where several New England divisional races are held] in one of the faster corners, and every time I went through that turn later, I felt a little afraid. You have to play little mind games with yourself. Every driver has to deal with the possibility...
Medenica, a former driver, knows all too well about what that one little mistake can mean. On Labor Day, 1976, while in third place in New England Formula Ford standings, Medenica crashed in a practice session at Lime Rock, plowing into another car that had spun out into a blind spot over a rise. Medenica's fragile car collapsed around his legs, fracturing both ankles. It was five months before he could walk without rutches, and he may still need another operation to regain full use in his right foot...
...conditioned, mirrored tack room. As butlers proffered champagne from silver trays, Madden screened footage of his past turf champions. Tom Gentry, the showman of the bluegrass, hawked his yearlings like a carnival huckster, giving away Tom Gentry T shirts, Tom Gentry hats and Tom Gentry Slush, a rum and lime concoction. Seth Hancock, breeder for Claiborne Farm, conducted business more sedately. His yearlings were paraded six at a time before sharp-eyed trainers searching for tiny flaws: a foot that was slightly crooked, a back with too much sway, undersized hindquarters, oversized hocks. No frills, just fine horseflesh...
...discriminating, well-heeled "Perrier freaks," who are willing to hunt down the drink in expensive gourmet shops and pay a dollar or more for a 23-oz. bottle. One of the latest In drinks at high-priced Manhattan restaurants is a glass of Perrier with a piece of lime. Source Perrier believes that sales of its nonfattening water will be further helped by the U.S. Government's proposed ban on saccharin, which will eliminate many U.S. diet drinks that use the artificial sweetener...
Inside, the bar was done up Mafia-surreal: big horse-shoe-shaped counter, color t.v. competing with the jukebox in the corner, indoor-outdoor carpet on the floor. A beer cost $2.25. Men in lime-green leisure suits and white patent leather loafers whose porcine faces bulged behind drugstore sunglasses, nodded at us and cackled in a far booth. We took our beers to the cool, shaded back...