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...been billed as the year of the showdown between the conventional piston-powered cars and the new turbine-propelled machines. It's no such thing. The showdown took place a year ago, and tomorrow the turbines will just finish the job they started then...
Right next to him sat 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...
...Piston Proponents...
...Piston proponents point out that in the past twenty years the race has been won from the pole only three times. Further, the damp, cool weather was made to order for the turbines, and if the temperature reaches 85 degrees on race day, they could lose as much as 20 per cent of their power...
Henry Ford brought Negroes from the South to work in his auto factories. City blues begin in Detroit. The heavy beat of electric blues is the beat of the machines that ground the Negro down. It is the sound of the piston, the rhythm of the steel press. And the life of blues is the arpeggio of release, the moment when a few high beautiful notes free themselves from the beat and dance and dream of freedom...