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...right the second time. "I'm going to stand on it today," Arfons an nounced, as he climbed into 'the tiny cockpit last week. Its J-79 engine shrieking, Monster lurched off down the straightaway toward the measured mile...
...clipped something in the water, sheared off a propeller blade, shot straight up into the air, fell back, and disintegrated. Less than three hours later, in the final heat, Don Wilson, 34, in Miss Budweiser and Rex Manchester, 39, in Notre Dame were jockeying for position on the back straightaway when Notre Dame skidded sideways and collided with Miss Budweiser, crumpling both boats instantly. All three drivers died-Musson and Manchester of broken necks, Wilson of a ruptured heart...
...weighing 1,450 Ibs. is sitting on your head. But it didn't stay there long." Said Dan Gurney in disgust: "It seems like 33 of what are supposed to be the best drivers in the world ought to be able to drive down a little straightaway piece of road without running into each other. Everybody has a brake and an accelerator. If one of these drivers had a brain too, this wouldn't have happened...
Andersen, too, improved spectacularly in the Army meet. He hadn't gone below 9.9 until he turned in a 9.7 to win against the Cadets. In the 220 his best time on a straightaway course...
...Good. Hardly anybody throws at George Scott-and that's another kind of tribute. The rookie first baseman of the Boston Red Sox is sturdier (at 6 ft. 2 in., 217 Ibs.) and maybe even stronger than Reichardt. He also is a straightaway swinger who hits his hardest shots right back through the middle-over the pitcher's mound. So opponents have concentrated instead on varying their pitches, probing for a weakness. New York's canny Whitey Ford figured a high fastball might be just the ticket-until Scott hit it 500 ft. into the upper deck...