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Sophomore Steve Hinkle surprised everyone by placing third out of 40 entries in the 15-kilometer cross-country run. John Morton of Middlebury won the event easily, finishing more than four minutes ahead of the second place racer...
...hairy sport of pylon racing. While cutting a tight turn around a 55-ft.-high pylon, a plane may pull up to six G.s even as it is being subjected to severe turbulence from the prop wash of competitors. The results can be catastrophic. While testing his homemade racer at Fort Worth last May, Georgia's Nick Jones was tooling along merrily-when a wing fell off. Jones was lucky: he parachuted to safety. The accident did not prevent him from borrowing another home-built to race at Reno last week...
...Montego line, of which two models resemble the popular Cougar. General Motors is also pushing the intermediates, featuring minor changes suggested by success of the 1966 Toronado. The 1968 Tem pest, for example, has an abbreviated rear and an elongated front, giving it the look of a chunky road racer. For its own sporty look, Buick has taken its Skylark and gone back to a sweeping, chrome-lined silhouette that became popular ten years...
...Ships are but boards," Shakespeare wrote, "sailors but men." He was obviously a landlubber. Never in U.S. history have so many men gone down to the sea (or lake, or river) in ships (or boats)-and whether they sail a 13-ft. Blue Jay or a 70-ft. offshore racer, they are a breed apart. West Coast fanatics get their kicks out of racing dinky, 8-ft. El Toros around treacherous San Francisco Bay, where a 20-knot wind is just air conditioning. Wintertime "frostbite" racing in tiny dinghies (6ft. to 14-ft. cockleshells with sails) is all the rage...
...wind and the sound of the starting gun. Everybody remembers J. P. Mor gan's haughty retort not to ask the cost of maintaining a yacht. But everybody is doing his best to make a liar out of him. The price of a relatively modest 19-ft. Lightning racer is $3,200 (more than 10,600 sold to date), and that's just the beginning. "A boat," as one Miami sailor puts it, "is a hole in the water, into which you pour your money." Docking fees run anywhere from $2 per day at the Ninnescah Yacht Club...