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...tawdry.By Wednesday the Speedway grounds were a littered, swampy mess. The race itself seemed almost anticlimactic. Then, on the 58th lap, Driver Swede Savage's car skidded out of control at 170 m.p.h., ricocheted off two walls and burst into flames. Jumping out of one of the pits to see what had happened, Mechanic Armondo Teran, 22, was struck by a rescue truck speeding the wrong way up the pit road. Savage was listed in critical condition with splintered legs and extensive burns. Teran died, the 58th fatality in the 57 years of the Indy...
...hard today as he did as a handyman at the Budapest opera 40 years ago. This week he brings the Chicago into New York for two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall, then on to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. In July he will be back in the pit at Covent Garden conducting Bizet's Carmen. He will stay on in London to record Mozart's Cost fan tutte and Puccini's La Boheme; then after a month's vacation he will return to Chicago for concerts, and begin recording more Beethoven symphonies...
...Butler won his heat and went on to place fifth overall in the 440 hurdles. Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace won his long jump section, sailing 23 feet into the muddy pit, but sustained a slight leg injury that forced his withdrawal from the triple jump...
Race day in North Wilkesboro dawns gray and sullen. Heavy rains have turned the red clay infield into an axle-deep quagmire. At noon, ten Petty crewmen, proud as Praetorian Guards, push his glittering racer down pit lane for inspection. At 1:20 p.m. Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver...
...vacuum created by the lead car as a fuel-and engine-conserving tow−he hangs on Allison's flank and then passes him on the outside. When Allison regains the lead, Petty cuts inside and roars ahead for good on the eleventh lap. Aided by a crack pit crew who wipe his windshield, give him a drink of water, change the tires and fuel the car in 17 seconds, Petty coasts to his 151st victory by a four-lap margin...