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...annual (since 1911) 500-mi. Indianapolis Speedway Race can be a dull show. In recent years, it has been dull-with the winner leading, and comfortably, somewhere after the 300-mile mark. But last week, right up to the final 20 miles, some 175.000 spectators got their money's worth in thrills...
...warm Sunday afternoon this week, word buzzed through the crowded stands at the Dayton, Ohio speedway that hard-driving Gordon Reid, 29, was a man to watch. "Flash" Reid was rated as a comer and was scheduled to drive in the Memorial Day race at Indianapolis. Fourteen thousand spectators were watching as Reid, gaining steadily, roared into third place in Dayton's ten-lap event. So, tensely, was Charlie Engle, the builder of Reid's low, powerful Engle-Stanko Special...
...parents were worrying about. I've got a bound set of TIME, all except the first four volumes, and use it all the time. I also put an emphasis on the twelfth birthday. If I know who won the World Series, or what happened at the Indianapolis Speedway, then I might get a clue to what my imaginary person was thinking about at that crucial time...
Tony Bettenhausen, who was born the year after De Palma won the Indianapolis Speedway classic in 1915, is becoming something of a classic himself. By last week, he was well on his way to winning U.S. racing's most coveted trophy: the national championship diamond ring awarded annually by the American Automobile Association for the series of races (13 this year) that begins at Indianapolis and will wind up on Armistice...
Perhaps the main path from Lamont to Sever could be made into a one-lane speedway to handle express classgoer traffic, and all local and westbound idlers could be shunted off to other routes, thereby reducing the accident toll. Or maintenance men could rip out the soundproofing in the library. If asked any questions, they could say that this was going to be done all along because the University has found that the suppression of noise violates the principles of academic freedom...