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The Traveco Mobile home, driven by NASCAR stock car pilot Joe Frasson and other members of the Bolus and Snopes (named after the Faulknerian family--auto racing is a crass sport and Snopes symbolizes pretty well a lot of what most auto racing is like) Racing Team, managed to finish...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: From Sea To Shining Sea | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

BUT THERE was an ominous note to the second race, begun sometime around the beginning of the oil boycott, but perhaps before the 55 mph speed limit. Several entrants showed up at the garage that nobody knew. Doped up and pilled up and on the wrong side of the thin...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: From Sea To Shining Sea | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

One of the Bolus and Snopes boys said that Yates holds the race for several reasons, many of which are philosophic, as "Brock is a complicated man." One of them is to show that speed limits as they are now set up are an infringement upon liberty and good sense...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: From Sea To Shining Sea | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

There are a couple of well-known names among the credits. One of the scriptwriters is Millard Kaufman, who wrote Bad Day at Black Rock. His partner is Samuel Fuller, a sort of American-primitive film maker (The Steel Helmet, The Naked Kiss) beloved of film noir aficionados. Director Terence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God's Littered Acre | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

Geography does not necessarily designate the truth of a place for Murray. It is people who do that. So a subway ride from midtown Manhattan to Harlem, where he has lived for ten years, is really a trip north down home. At Yale, visiting C. Vann Woodward and Robert Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul: Straight Up, No Ice | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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