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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once in the water, men as well as machines need something like black magic to survive the punishing eight-hour Havasu marathon. Topping 100 m.p.h. on the straightaway and jouncing through treacherous wakes, the streamlined craft are, as Driver Bill Muncey says, "delicate mechanisms that run on the ragged edge of blowing up every minute." Indeed, by the halfway mark in last week's race, crackups and conk-outs claimed 26 of the 94 starters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Duel of Delicate Mechanisms | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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