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...Carl Robie, an 18-year-old University of Michigan freshman, seemed all arms and shoulders as he powered his way to a 2:08.2 world butterfly record over 200 meters. By the time the U.S. 800-meter freestyle relay team of Schollander, McDonough, Townsend and Saari crouched and sprang from the starting platform on the final day, a feeling of inevitability had settled around the race. Sure enough, the result was another world mark: 8:03.7. The overwhelming U.S. team margin: 63 points, to Japan's 22. And still there was no stopping the Americans: in Osaka, in what...
...then Clark won the Belgian, British and U.S. Grand Prix, barely lost the world championship to Graham Hill when his Lotus sprang an oil leak in the season's final race. Bad luck still plagued Jimmy at the start of the 1963 season: his gearbox suddenly seized while he was leading the Grand Prix of Monaco. Then, on Memorial Day, Clark tried his hand at Indianapolis in a specially built Lotus-Ford, came in second in a controversial race many people think he should have won. He has not lost since. In the rain-drenchec Belgian Grand Prix...
...dear old Princeton." And to cap it off, at half-time the Poonies put out a fake CRIMSON headlined "BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD". There was an explanatory drop line: "HRLD BREATH TOO LONG". The ill feeling were pretty generally forgotten by 1934, and the football series sprang up for keeps. Princeton won, incidentally...
...162nd lap, Parnelli pitted for the last time. It was a good one-21.2 sec.-but when he streaked back onto the track, Clark -in the open now and pressing-was only 11 sec. behind. Suddenly, with 25 laps to go, Parnelli ran into trouble: his Offy sprang an oil leak. To conserve his shrinking supply, he eased off the throttle. Now Clark was 5 sec. behind, and 300,000 fans were screaming...
...printer was developed by Radiation Inc., a small, space-oriented electronics manufacturer that sprang up 13 years ago near Cape Canaveral and has been experimenting with electrosensitive printing for several years. Its printer uses electronic impulses, not type, to form the characters. An 18-ft.-long monster, it looks like a cross between a filing cabinet and a press, eats up a continuous sheet of electrosensitive paper at a speed of 483 ft. per minute. The paper is drawn under a stationary set of 600 tiny needles-or styli-that are arranged in a 10-in. row. The computer standing...