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BEYOND the dollar storms and the sump that is Watergate, there is a bigger world, and it is coming together in a manner that brings some hope this springtime. In that world, the Richard Nixon of the long head and the calm eye resides. There, too, walks Henry Kissinger, the most remarkable presidential creation of this century. The two are trying to cement global tranquillity into permanent peace...
...episodes were filmed by a movie camera in a twelfth-floor window above the street. What the camera did not record, though, were the remarks of pedestrians buffeted by the psychologists: "Whatsa madda? Ya blind? Whyn't ya look where ya goin'? Ya crazy or sump'n?" The way Wolff sees it, such comments indicate that New Yorkers, though inured to many other inconveniences, are not tolerant of sidewalk bumping; they expect some degree of cooperation from other pedestrians in order to avert collisions...
Under the fissure, the passage becomes horizontal, and you crawl 100 feet on your belly, pushing a pack of equipment ahead of you. Further beyond, the passage leads to a shorter Gunbarrel that ends in a "sump": a low tube nearly filled with water, with only three of four inches of breathing space at the top, in dry weather. Then the cave becomes high enough to walk in and leads to miles of unmapped passages. But this is only New York. In West Virginia, or Kentucky, or Mexico, the dimensions are much more fantastic...
...averaging 110 m.p.h., while the other Fords maintained a slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...
...second straight championship when all sorts of little things started going wrong. In France it was a hole in a piston, in Germany a broken valve. Clark did not win another race, but still he lost the championship to Ferrari's John Surtees only because his sump ran dry on the last lap of the last race, the Mexican Grand Prix...