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Custom calls for the 33 cars to line up three abreast in eleven rows, circle the track and then gradually quicken the pace for a nice orderly start. But once the winged, turbo-charged monsters come roaring down the final straightaway at 150 m.p.h., each trying to jump lanes or sneak ahead, the result is more like a motorized stampede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Life and Death at Indy | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...pedal car has a speed of about 15 to 20 miles per hour on a straightaway Benfield said. Leigh, however, said that he had clocked it as fast as 35 miles per hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ackermann Leads Procession Of Pollution-Free 'Pedal Cars' | 4/20/1973 | See Source »

...likes birds," he says. "Normally, I'd spend a lot of time, chat and money taking a girl out in the hope of getting somewhere with her. This way-being a pinup-I've got to the clothesoff stage with thousands of birds straightaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1972 | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...Frazier replied, "Then you have nothing to be afraid of," shot her and threw her into the pool. He asked the same question of the secretary, got the same answer, shot her and put her into the pool. He performed no such ritual with the children but killed them straightaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Environmentalist | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Once in the water, men as well as machines need something like black magic to survive the punishing eight-hour Havasu marathon. Topping 100 m.p.h. on the straightaway and jouncing through treacherous wakes, the streamlined craft are, as Driver Bill Muncey says, "delicate mechanisms that run on the ragged edge of blowing up every minute." Indeed, by the halfway mark in last week's race, crackups and conk-outs claimed 26 of the 94 starters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Duel of Delicate Mechanisms | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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