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...songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty and tired, he finds his way to a corner cantina. "Do we make a deal?" he asks the barkeeper. "Why not?" says the barkeep, and pours out a liter of pulque. Wiping the milky froth from his lips, the organ grinder then reels off three numbers that have the hod carriers at the bar singing at the tops of their voices...
...expected, the speedy Italian entries took the early lead. Italy's World Champion Alberto Ascari, driving a 4.5-liter Ferrari, whirled one lap (about 8½ miles) at a record 111.5 m.p.h. American Johnny Fitch, in a Briggs Cunningham Special, set a kilometer record at 155 m.p.h. But the race was not to the early swift...
...five-day race ran through sand-dune country up into high (10,000 ft.), treacherous mountain passes to the Indian town of Oaxaca. Italy's Ascari skidded off the road and cracked up his Ferrari; the surprise first-day leader turned out to be the little (1½-liter) French Gordini, driven by an ex-motorcycle racer named Jean Behra, who set a blistering average of 89 m.p.h. Only 5 min. 37 sec. behind the Frenchman was Italy's Bracco, with Germany's Karl Kling, greying veteran of prewar races, right at their heels...
From tests on more than 500 industrial workers, he has found that the average 18-year-old has 25 cc of blood passing through one liter of muscle per minute. At 25, the average shows a sharp drop, to 15 cc. And by age 35, it is down to 10 cc. But there are enormous variations between seemingly healthy people, e.g., a well-preserved specimen of 60 may have the same blood flow as a debilitated stripling of 20. And so, Dr. Jones reasons, he might be a better employment risk than many of his juniors. One possible...
Future Plan. Spear, a hulking (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ibs.) racer, has only been at it for two years. This was his first important victory. Credit, he confesses, should go to Mechanic Alfred Momo, 56, a Ferrari specialist and former Italian air-force man. His winning 4.1-liter Ferrari (Model America) is essentially just as it came from the factory: $12,000 worth of Italian handiwork with an aluminum body and a triple-carburetor, twelve-cylinder engine (220 h.p.), capable of driving the car 140 m.p.h. Spear and Momo made only two alterations: an anti-sway bar was installed...