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...cars went into the second lap, a white Pontiac Tempest sedan hot-rodded past everyone into the lead. The Tempest is Pontiac's compact, normally has a four-cylinder engine, gentle springs, and all the aerodynamic qualities of a two-by-four. But some expert rebuilding and the addition of an optional, high-performance V-8 Pontiac engine was all that Driver Paul Goldsmith, 36, himself an Indianapolis driver, needed to leave the Sting Rays in his exhaust...
...point Goldsmith buzzed around the rain-slick, 2.5-mile track at a risky 155 m.p.h. "I broke into a number of slides that made my hair stand up," he later admitted. But his 3,200-lb. Tempest with wide-track wheels was a great deal easier to control than the lighter (by 400 Ibs.) Sting Rays-or even a pair of Italian Ferrari GTOs. Two Sting Rays pulled into the pits flooded with 4 in. of water on their floor boards from leaky vents; the others were sliding all over the track. At race's end, Goldsmith...
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...many specifics on timing, President Kennedy recommended that the reduction be stretched out over three years. He asked the Congress to begin applying the cuts this year. But he did not repeat his earlier contention that a tax reduction should be retroactive to Jan. 1, 1963. Recognizing the legislative tempest that tax reform inevitably raises, he suggested that reforms need not go into effect until next year...
...Adenauer's political foes might at last have the pleasure of seeing the Old Man forced out of office. The scandal over the arrest and jailing of Publisher Rudolf Augstein and the top editors of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel (TIME, Nov. 9) had blown up into a national tempest, rocking the Cabinet itself. But in his half-century of political maneuvering, der Alte has learned what it takes to survive. Last week he squeaked through again-with a plan that probably will sacrifice his brawny, brawling Minister of Defense Franz Josef Strauss, the man widely blamed for organizing...