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...Rose Speedway (Paul McCartney and Wings, Apple; $5.98). Perhaps McCartney's best post-Beatle album. Although it seems obvious that he is never going to become the pithy lyricist John Lennon was, and sometimes still is, McCartney remains a musical nonpareil. Rarely is he better than when dealing with blues-based material like this album's Get on the Right Thing...
Stock car race Richie Evans set a Cardinal 500 Classic Modified qualifying record yesterday in winning the pole position for Sunday's race to a $32,000 purse at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia...
...three uninterrupted hours, the little blue Chevrolet Vega cruised steadily around the Michigan International Speedway southwest of Detroit at a constant 50 m.p.h. That performance fell far short of setting any endurance or speed records. But when the car finally pulled into the pits, the joy at trackside was unconfined. Toasts were drunk and the engineer who had prepared the Vega for its run was doused with beer. The small knot of men had every reason to celebrate. Their little car had just traveled some 150 miles at a respectable highway speed, although under its hood there was nothing more...
...qualifying trials already have produced astounding times. Of the first dozen drivers to make the field, eleven broke last year's record qualifying speed of 178.696 miles an hour. Bobby Unser's average for four laps of the 21-mile rectangular speedway was a phenomenal 195.940. That average was achieved in one of the sleekest new cars, an Eagle-Offenhauser designed by Los Angeleno Roman Slobodynskyj. Besides wings, the vehicle has air scoops streamlined into its sides, thus reducing the drag caused by nose scoops...
...SHORT history of rock and roll festivals is circumscribed by three singular events: the Monterey Festival, the Lake Bethel Festival, and a day-long concert at the Altamont Speedway. Each event's claim to singularity is by this time a matter of commonly received opinion: as our commentators have it. Monterey marked the apotheosis of the San Francisco-based flower culture, the Bethel concert (Woodstock) was the great coming together for, in its advertisement's words, three days of Love, Peace and Music, and Altamont the death of flower-power, the death of Love, the death of Rock, depending...