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Vroom! ... Aargh! ... Eeesh! ... Careening out of a 180° hairpin bend, engine screaming at 6,800 r.p.m. and rear wheels adrift, the smoking blue racing machine slides perilously close to the curve, then barrels into a straightaway. "C'mon now," the driver growls through gritted teeth. "Punch that pedal! Now feather the gas! Hug that curve like your darlin...
...readers (a defense the paper does not offer in covering other parts of the world). But Times people also claim that local coverage has improved since Sydney Schanberg became metropolitan editor in May, replacing Mitchel Levitas, who was moved sideways to edit the Sunday Week in Review section. Schanberg straightaway told his 100 or so metropolitan reporters that he wanted everybody "to have fun." Productivity has increased among reporters who were previously alienated, bored or overlooked; Times local coverage is growing more aggressive. The paper last month, for example, printed the names and pictures of prominent citizens who rent space...
...Quakers put the Crimson back on the scoring treadmill when Tony Price cashed in on a three-point play and Harvard forward Bob Hooft picked up his third foul with only ten minutes of play gone. Penn guard Bobby Willis hit on a straightaway 25-footer but Irion, who hauled down 11 points in the half, floated in a scoop shot going down the lane to lop the Quaker lead to eight...
Irion uncorked the first whiff of grape shot when he opened the game with a three-point play. A tip-in by CCNY's blue chip guard Rich Silvera gave the New Yorkers an 8-7 lead until Jonas Honick pulled the trigger on a straightaway jumper to ease the Crimson into the lead...
There are also cameos of the first stirrings of adolescence, mostly focusing on young Patrick (Gregory Desmouceaux). Smitten with a schoolmate's mother, he buys her red roses and presents them with trepidation. She is surprised and very pleased, and straightaway tells him to "thank your father." Patrick negotiates his first double date with a similar lack of success. He winds up at the end of the row in the movie theater, his buddy in the middle with his arms around both girls...