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...race and break the course record too," boasted Scotland's jaunty Jimmy Clark before the U.S. Auto Club's 200-mile race at Trenton, N.J., last week. "Bah," sneered the U.S.'s pugnacious Parnelli Jones. "Clark may go back to Scotland talking out of the other side of his mouth...
...that day was Clark in the rear-engined Lotus-Ford. In August Clark got a measure of revenge when he whipped 22 Offies in the Milwaukee 200. Now, having already sewed up the Grand Prix championship, Jimmy Clark and his Lotus teammate, California's Dan Gurney, were at Trenton for the rubber match and $42,000 in prize money...
...when Gurney's Lotus took off in the time trials to decide starting positions. A gasp went up when the announcer gave his speed: an average of 109 m.p.h. for the short one-mile track, almost 3 m.p.h. better than the fastest ever posted by an Offy at Trenton. Then came Clark, just a fraction faster to set still another record...
...Lotus. A camshaft cover had burst and oil was seeping into his engine block. That was it. With the last Lotus limping into the pits, the race belonged to the dogged Foyt. At the checkered flag, he had averaged 101 m.p.h. for 200 laps around the tiny Trenton track...
...this school year began at Ewing High School in Trenton, N.J., History Teacher William R. di George put 125 seniors through his annual test. For two weeks, the students are given an opportunity to study a display of TIME covers on the classroom walls. Then each cover is placed under a mat so that only the face is visible, and the picture is projected onto a screen. In a written test, the students are required to identify 100 cover subjects by name and specific endeavor. Through the years, this visual test has a special impact in creating and deepening...