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...Speed Racer...
...talking about. He has no feel for the times when kids were trying to resolve the contradictions between an inherited style of surviving adolescence and the radically different, new possibilities. Pat Boone and Elvis Presley, the malt shop and the rock concert, the jalopy and the drag racer, white bucks and black leather jackets-for a while in the '50s, two ways of being a teen-ager existed side by side. The poignancy of Grease derived from that juxtaposition: Can sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra Dee side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny, the dark, flip side...
NUMBER 5 or 6, KEVIN SHAW. Junior and three-year starter, has one of best serves on squad, known as the "blue racer"...tallest member of team, appropriately nicknamed "Highpockets" or "Stork"...keyed 5-4 upset over Princeton freshman year with a straight-set victory at number four over current Tiger co-captain Jon Gross; Harvard tied for the league title with that win...smart doubles player, good volleyer, better in singles with improved groundstrokes this year...terror in Palmer-Dixon...key to game is return of serve, since he holds serve well...won Ohio state doubles championship as schoolboy...
...longer drive, Medenica wanted to stay in motoring racing, so last spring he decided to form a team with Aronson. After shelling out $6000 for a car, the next necessity was a driver. Medenica had seen Herne in races the previous year, so he wrote to the young racer and offered him a job. "The whole thing just snowballed from there," Medenica says. After several fits and starts, the team got untracked late in the spring, racing through mid-September whenever possible. Herne rolled up 30 points to the runner-up's 27 to capture the New England championship...
...where the team is heading remains unclear. If they continue to win they will attract attention and consider a move up in class to Formula Vee, or, if they can afford it, they might attempt to race in European Formula Three. "Five years ago every up-and-coming road racer wanted to go to Europe, but now the important thing is to do as well as you can, wherever you are," Medenica says...