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...portraiture or in an urban world to find the mind of the artist shaping its material. The regularity of the natural stonework in "Grand Canvon" is like the automated regularity of the "San Francisco Bay Bridge from Yerbe Buen Island" (1953). Adams chooses to portray the bridge in a straightaway perspective with its vanishing point squarely centered: Beetle-like automobiles march toward infinity in formation, as do the landscapes achieve an effect perilously close to the Canyon's rocks...
...Then came Lap 197. Just eight miles from the finish, a $6 ball bearing failed inside Jones's gearbox. Into the pits went Parnelli, and into the lead went Foyt. Victory was just around the corner. Or disaster. Sweeping through the last turn and into the main straightaway, Foyt was only yards from the checkered flag when the track in front of him was suddenly filled with fishtailing racers and flying tires. Five cars had cracked up, and Foyt's Coyote was sixth in line. Somehow, A.J. threaded his way through the wreckage and across the finish line...
...Grand Prix course. It is really not a track at all-merely a hair-raising path through the city streets of Monte Carlo, barely wide enough to allow one car to pass another, and replete with such hazards as a curving tunnel in the middle of a 120-m.p.h. straightaway and two hairpins. It is hard enough to steer a Corvair around a 180° turn, let alone a 400-h.p. Formula I racing car. In the past 15 years, the winner's speed has climbed from 58.2 m.p.h. to 75.8 m.p.h...
Having slowed down to round a curve that could have led to recession, the U.S. economy now is on the straightaway and picking up speed. Last week the stock market, which reacts today to what investors expect of tomorrow, climbed to an eleven-month peak...
...single racing season. Twelve feet long and elegantly slender, they look like bright green, blue, red, purple dragonflies perched on fat black feet. Though the cars weigh a mere 1,100 Ibs., their three-liter engine develops more than 375 h.p., and they can dart down a straightaway at better than 200 m.p.h. At full bore, a Formula One handles so neurotically that in all the world of motor racing only 20 men are fully qualified to drive...