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During the first few months of each year, Detroit's auto manufacturers stage a strange and well-guarded ritual at their test sites. Using cars equipped with the following model-year's engine, test drivers go through an endless automotive pentathlon of starts and stops, cruising and idling, turning and backing up. Even so, company engineers must wait four months to get the results they want: a series of cars that have clocked 50,000 miles each of simulated commuter driving on Los Angeles freeways with almost no repair work. Only after the exhaust emissions from vehicles thus...
There is a sort of sliding scale for the premiums. If an East German athlete like Pentathlon Star Burglinde Pollak beats a fellow East German or even a Communist brother in international competition, she receives the minimum bonus. The amount rises if she defeats a capitalist, and reaches a maximum if she conquers a West German. An Olympic Games gold medal, depending on the sport category, may earn an East German athlete between 20,000 and 50,000 marks ($6,250 to $15,600). One reward for Margitta Gummel, who won the women's shotput event in Mexico...
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...greatest fame came from his athletic accomplishments. Besides starring in the broad jump, Gourdin was the national champion in the 100-yard dash in 1920, and during the next two years was national pentathlon champion...
...four-year-old daughter is locked away in an asylum where they pump chemicals into her brain, the horror and self-loathing Maria experiences in the course of a routinely blase abortion-alone? To escape, or perhaps just to survive, Maria "fixed her imagination on a needle dripping sodium pentathlon into her arm.... When that failed she imagined herself driving, conceived audacious lane changes, strategic shifts of gear, the Hollywood to the San Bernardino and straight out, past Barstow, past Baker, driving straight on into the hard white empty core of the world." Again, the desert. It all leads back...