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...Graham Hill in another turbine, and in the fourth row was Art Pollard in the last STP car. Pollard had never even been in the car prior to his qualifying run. No piston-powered car came within two miles per hour of Leonard's record-breaking 171.559 mph...
...further slowed by full fuel loads. The turbines are vulnerable to this to the same degree that piston cars are, but since they run on kerosene in racing and qualifying, they suffer no speed loss due to fuel changes. Leonard and Pollard can turn laps at over 169 mph with full tanks, while a piston-powered car would be lucky to run within five mph of that...
Anil Nayar, whose forehand shot has been unofficially clocked at over 100 mph, Larry Terrell, and captain Rick Sterne led yesterday's win with easy 3-0 victories. But Jose Gonzalez, playing in the third spot behind Nayar and Terrell, gave the crowd of 125 some real excitement...
Andersen collected first place laurels in the 100, posting a 0:99 clocking against a 10-mph wind. Aggrey Awori finished fourth...
...Gamble moved up younger men, diversified into everything from walnuts to frozen waffles. Last week, in his first European acquisition, he bought up a Dutch candy firm. The overall result of his presence: an 85% increase in sales, to $300 million in fiscal 1964. Another result: a 530 mph executive jet to replace the company's slower 240 mph Convair...