Word: racer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year sports-car driver Donohue and his McLaren racer terrorized them, running at record-shattering speeds throughout practice. But fellow road-racer Revson, in another McLaren, won the number-one starting position when Donohue's car lost its edge, during qualifications. Donohue and Revson are the favorites, in that order, with the likes of A. J. Foyt, Bobby and Al Unser, and Mario Andretti left hoping that the McLarens break down...
Since that time, Dutcher has been an active racer. He made it to the semifinal heats of the recent Yamaha races that drew 17.000 to Madison Square Garden and was covered in Sports Illustrated...
...Racer's Edge. P. & T. charges a big-city station up to $25,000 for a "customized concept" and reel of round-the-clock jingles. A tiny coffeepot of a station that does not require the Moog Synthesizer or fancy arrangements may get its custom image for as little as $690, or perhaps a combination of cash and commercial time. P. & T. gets reimbursed by reselling those commercial minutes to such spot clients as Orkin pest control, Safeway supermarkets, or STP ("is the racer's edge...
...Philadelphia's Main Line, Chance has been a water baby "since my mother dropped me overboard when I was two." His father won a yachting gold medal in the 1952 Olympics. Sisters Jan and Elli are top small-boat skippers, while Uncle Henry is a noted ocean racer. Brit Jr. began sailing tiny sneak boxes on New Jersey's Barnegat Bay, moved on to the E scows his grandfather imported from the Great Lakes. After three years of studying physics at the University of Rochester, he quit school to apply his test-tank theories in open waters. Success...
Died. Jochen Rindt, 28, Austrian auto racer, who very probably will become the first man ever to win the Grand Prix world championship posthumously; when his Lotus-Ford crashed at 185 m.p.h. at Monza, Italy, while preparing for a Grand Prix race next day. A professional racer since he was 19, Rindt worked through all the classes from Fiat saloons to Ferrari sports cars, in which he captured (with Masten Gregory) the classic 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965. Last year he took over as top driver for Lotus and roared off to victory this season in the Monaco...