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...secretarial scramble eastward began with the disappearance of Ursel Lorenzen, 42, from NATO headquarters. When next seen, she was on East German television, declaring that she had "daily evidence of NATO's real preparations for totally destructive nuclear war." NATO officials ruefully conceded that she could indeed have passed classified information to the Communists...
...turned a race into a rout. Gunning into the lead at the start, he stayed there for all but 19 out of 364 laps, coasted to a five-lap victory that was worth $26,900 and boosted his 1967 winnings to $110,175-just $3,395 short of Fred Lorenzen's all-time season record...
...Fred Lorenzen, 30: the accident-marred, $65,000 National 400 auto race, averaging 119 m.p.h. in his 1965 Ford; at Charlotte, N.C. A five-car pile-up on the first lap cost the life of Driver Harold Kite, and only 18 of the 44 starters were still around at the end. Lorenzen made his move on the 216th lap (out of 267), dueled bumper to bumper for the next 45 laps with A. J. Foyt, took the lead for keeps when Foyt clipped the wall at 125 m.p.h.-only nine miles from the finish...
...stock-car or 2,000 sports-car races held in the U.S. each year. For $1,000, he can even take a one-week course in competition driving from Racer-Designer (Ford-Cobra) Carroll Shelby. For the really successful racing driver, the rewards are great. Fred Lorenzen has already won $63,675 on the stock-car circuit this year, and A. J. Foyt, who is equally adept in stock cars, sports cars and Indianapolis roadsters, won $250,000 in 1964. Another field is that led by Art Arfons, who hit 600 m.p.h. in his jet-powered Green Monster at Bonneville...
Panch spun onto the grass, and all the way back to sixth place. Dieringer shot into second. But the rain was blinding, and worried officials flashed the yellow caution light-no passing. Then the red light was on. After 332.5 of the scheduled 500 miles, the race was over. Lorenzen was the winner over