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...drivers are a unique breed. They race along Fifth and Sixth Avenues like they were the Indianapolis Speedway, and they habitually try to squeeze through spaces that are too narrow for even a bicycle to navigate. New York City lights are synchronized so that if your timing is right, you can drive for fifty or sixty blocks without hitting a red light. Cabbies always insist upon perfect timing, even if it means a high-speed chase through the pot-holed streets of the City. Commuting by cab is a sure-fire route to hypertension, ulcers and the inability to lace...
DIED. Anton (Tony) Hulman Jr., 76, sportsman who transformed the dying Indianapolis Motor Speedway into a multimillion-dollar attraction; of a ruptured artery; in Indianapolis. In 1945 Hulman bought the speedway-which had been closed during the war years-from Eddie Rickenbacker for $750,000. He revived the "500" and refashioned a folk festival where thousands gathered every year and heard him say, "Gentlemen, start your engines...
...works in a furniture factory and "Stick" Elliott sells junk, but if their callings are prosaic, the men are not. They are fast rollers in the grand Southern tradition of dirt track racing: small-town versions of Rapid Roy. Up to 3,500 fans will converge on the Concord Speedway 15 miles northeast of Charlotte, N.C., on a balmy Saturday evening to watch these two "pedal-to-the-metal" drivers bump fenders as they scream around the track in their blazing fast, gloriously battered stock cars. Stick and Carl are masters of the "power slide," a dirt racing technique that...
...Indianapolis Speedway, wrecker trucks are RWB; so are many Illinois state police cars, garbage trucks in Boston, fire hydrants, buses and subway cars in Chicago, and Braniff s flagship airliner...
...Rolla asked me to watch her in a race at Ontario speedway in California last year," said Simon. The verdict Simon returned with: "You'd be stupid if you didn't sign...