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...most auto races, the competing cars have about as much in common with the family flivver as an Apollo spacecraft has with a Piper Cub. Not in the Trans-American Championship for sports sedans. Commonly known as the Trans-Am, the competition is limited to genuine stock cars; the rules restrict engine size to 305 cu. in. and require that at least 2,500 identical models be in general distribution. The result is what Tracy Bird, executive director of the sponsoring Sports Car Club of America, calls "product identity," a sense of involvement that has drawn more than...
...underscored when Soviet-made SA-2 missiles near the Suez Canal brought down a Phantom jet and an Israeli Skyhawk within half an hour of each other. The planes were the only ones to be destroyed by SA-2s since the Six-Day War other than a lone Piper Cub. The fact that Russia has apparently developed mobile platforms for the missiles, enabling Egypt to shift and hide them in an area that has been subjected to 25 consecutive days of bombing, convinced Israel that a temporary truce would be militarily devastating...
...Hawk missile but equipped with better radar, supplements the less sophisticated SA2, which never measured up to Soviet expectations. In North Viet Nam, where Moscow installed them to defend against U.S. planes, SA-2s worked successfully only three times in 6,800 firings. The Israelis lost just one Piper Cub to the SA-2s. By flying low, Israeli jets easily evaded the missiles. They also bombed about 20 of the sites out of existence...
There were three speakers-John D. Elder. associate director of field education at the Divinity School; Claudette Piper. associate national director of RESIST and one of the Boston Eight recently involved in draft file destruction; and Peter Irons, a teaching fellow at B. U. who has served 26 months in jail for refusing induction-at the rally which was chaired by James M. Fallows...
...bowl eggs before the thrilled pupils at Carr Mill. With stumps set up for added authenticity, Trueman sent one egg after another whizzing down the cricket pitch at 90 m.p.h. Remarkably, only a few broke. To keep up with its Fleet Street competitor, the Daily Express hired a Piper Aztec to drop five dozen eggs at 150 m.p.h., dive-bombing over an airfield near Carr Mill. Three dozen remained unbroken, leading the school's headmaster to remark: "The ancestor of the hen is believed to have laid its eggs in flight...