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...competition. After 23 days on the grueling, 2,816-mi. course that snakes in and out of six countries, only 81 of 132 starters were still riding as the tour swung into the final 17-mi. dash for Paris. Anquetil had a bare 14-sec. lead over his closest pursuer, but then bike racing's reigning rajah turned it on and pumped across the finish line for a 55-sec. victory, slimmest margin in the race's 51 years...
...White field on the Loeb stage is not the representative of the Life Force, the pursuer who must necessarily conquer John Tanner to achieve motherhood; and John Tanner (but some of this is Shaw's doing) is not the artist who must remain free to give the Life Force meaning and whose entrapment is tragic...
...each driving stride. The track was a special, rubberized asphalt that Hayes found to his liking. "It doesn't give like cinders," he said. "You lose about 1/10 second on cinders because your spikes dig in." As he sliced through the tape 5 ft. ahead of his closest pursuer, astonished officials huddled and checked their watches. Then they announced his time: 9.1 sec.-a new world record. To prove it was no fluke, he ran another 9.1, winning the finals-but that didn't count, because he had a favoring wind. "Aw shucks," said Bob Hayes...
Karandas, turning on Kirkland Street, managed to get his third lock at his pursuer. And as he swung into Divinity Avenue, he contemplated an attack. Words of wrath formed themselves in his disordered brain, as his body's pace began suddenly to slacken. His unusual exertions were catching up with him--and so was Biff Bundie. On the steps of the Biology Building, Karandas finally ground to a halt; and there, magnificently, he turned slowly to face and address his tormentor. "I do not know who you are, sir," he wheezed in a high-pitched whine quite foreign...
...horses pounded through the tight arc of Tattenham Corner and into the stretch, Jockey Roger Poincelet, aboard Psidium, lazily swung his whip. The colt responded with an astonishing burst of speed that carried him into the lead and under the wire two lengths ahead of his closest pursuer...