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...front of it, smaller machines fell the great trees with laser beams. Blink, blink. The red beams slice the trees and they topple. The great mother machine now takes over, moving forward to eat the trees and all the undergrowth, meanwhile extruding four-lane highways from its distant rear. Dazzling cities spring up out of the bush to either side...
...sweptwing jet stay in the air and maneuver safely at such low speeds? The answer can be read in the big landing flaps at the rear edge of its wings. On the landing approach the flaps extend at an unusually sharp angle; sometimes they droop as much as 70°. Ordinary flaps would not work effectively at this angle; instead of giving more lift, they would merely create drag as the air passing over them burbled into turbulence...
Sheets of Flame. Last week, the favorite won. The 33-car field was the fastest in 500 history. Driving a rear-engined Lotus-Ford, Scotland's Jimmy Clark roared through the first lap at 149.7 m.p.h., and other drivers strained to match his pace. One was too bold. On the second lap, drifting off Indy's No. 4 turn, Californian Dave MacDonald lost control of his Thompson-All-State Ford, spun crazily and smacked into the inside wall. In one horrible instant that none of the 300,000 spectators will ever forget, a sheet of flaming gas spread...
...took 1¾ hours to put out the fires and clear away the debris. And then, Indy being Indy, the race began again. Fans had expected a showdown between the new-fangled rear-engined Fords and the front-engined Offies that had dominated Indy for years. For a while, it looked as if they would get it. Clark again jumped into the lead, but he was quickly passed by Bobby Marshman in another Lotus-Ford. After 39 laps, Marshman was 27 sec. in front of Clark; both were averaging more than 150 m.p.h., smashing Indy's old speed record...
...that the Fords, for all their speed, are new engines, and the 500 is a machinery-destroying grind. But at the start at least, it looks as if the pole, the entire three-car first row, and four out of the first six positions belonged to Ford-in-the-rear. Growled Parnelli Jones: "Those Fords are pushing us Offy boys pretty hard...