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...Connecticut finishes patching up its highway system from New Haven to the Massachusett's border, there remains only one big missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization...
Like the rest of the highway chain, the Massachusetts turnpike would be only a supplement to and not a replacement for the old road network. Using the speedway would be optional; no one traveling from one Massachusetts point to another would be obliged to pay the toll...
Agile Austin. On the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, an Austin convertible set a new U.S. speed record for open stock cars, a mark most auto makers are not interested in. Despite several stops for repairs (see cut), the Austin covered 11,850 miles in seven days, for an average speed of 70.54 m.p.h. (old record: 68.58 m.p.h.). A few days later, the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., did something U.S. automakers were interested in. It cut prices $1,000 on the record-setting model. The new price: $2,795 with a manually operated top, $180 more with a hydraulically operated...
...practice grew quickly, eventually became one of Chicago's largest. The growth was helped somewhat in later years by his souped-up Lincoln which got him to out-of-town calls at a spectacular clip. He hired as chauffeur a former policeman who had driven in the Indianapolis speedway races. Says Schmidt: "I don't believe in doctors driving cars. I don't believe in women driving cars, either-although the present Mrs. Schmidt [his second wife] is a good driver...
...Onetime Indianapolis Speedway Driver Cliff Bergere drove a 15-block course in Colorado Springs, Colo., carefully adhering to traffic rules, finished in 9 minutes and 35.1 seconds. Then, with police permission, he went around again at illegal speeds; he broke 52 traffic rules but, he said, was able to cut only 3.9 seconds off his previous mark...