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...Andy Lombara made us look like a good football team," Restic said. "Now we have to get him the ball quicker...
...which is a long way from stock-car racing's roots in moonshining. During the 1930s and '40s, drivers running corn whisky from backwoods stills to thirsty customers needed their cars to be a little lighter and quicker than the sheriff's in order to remain in business. Bootleggers like the legendary Junior Johnson of Ronda, N.C., took to tearing out the radios, door handles, glass and backseats from "stock" cars (i.e., directly off showroom floors) and muscling up the engines in their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month...
...cross country -- muscled arm out the window of a Hudson Hornet, Benzedrine inhaler in nostril -- it may come as a surprise to learn how hard he worked, albeit sporadically, to support his family. He was a brakeman for the Southern Pacific, a job that required a quick mind and quicker feet. Later, fellow workers at the Los Gatos Tire Co. marveled at his speed and skill with iron and sledge...
...difference between the reforested . stands and the ancient forest they replace. "I believe I as an individual can replicate the forest, redo it like a farmer growing a crop and do it better than nature," he says. "I can remake the old forest the same way nature did, only quicker." Talk like that riles environmentalists, who see the forest as more than just another fungible asset. Steve Erickson, whose father was in the timber industry and whose brother works in a mill, is writing a book about hiking trails. But Erickson finds it hard to share his vision...
Hafferty noted that the competition this weekend will be "faster, quicker and stronger" than what the Crimson is used to, but Tri-Captain Kate Ford is not concerned...