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...dirt racing technique that requires each driver to gauge the velocity of his car against its distance from other vehicles while skidding laterally around a slick clay oval at 100 m.p.h. - up to four hurtling Chevys all fishtailing in unison. For excitement, the power slide is a grand slam homer and game-winning touchdown wrapped into one. It is this kind of action and these kind of men that draw perhaps 500,000 Southerners on a weekend to some 100 small tracks operating week after week for nine months a year. The sport defies economic logic. A late-model sports...
...squad would be the understatement of the season. If they had played the national anthem before the game, the band wouldn't have gotten past the first few bars before Northeastern had a man hugging each base. And the bombs were just bursting when Scott Medowsky hit a grand slam that put Harvard in the hold by four...
Five Crimson errors hardly helped the cause of starter Larry Brown and three relievers; three Navy home runs (two by Ed Abner, one a grand slam) helped even less...
...mortars, did not recognize the sound of howitzer fire as the first shells came arcing out of the mountains ringing Beirut to burst with gigantic splashes in the Mediterranean alongside the seafront boulevards. As the gunners found their range, reported TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, the shells began to slam into office buildings and apartment houses. Sound trucks sped through the hastily cleared streets warning citizens: "Go to your basements and avoid elevators when the shells come." For some, the warning was too late. By one estimate, 200 Beirutis were killed and another 500 injured on a single...
...preparation for tonight's contest against Springfield Commerce Richards big men Turo Russell and Rudy Williams, were throwing Dr. J moves at their imaginary foes and finishing off their moves with stylish slam dunks...