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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real antique among race tracks is the 38-year-old Monaco 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...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). On land, sea and in the air: the National A.A.U. Gymnastics championships from Northwestern State College, Natchitoches, La.; the World Invitational High Diving championships from Las Vegas; the International Parachuting championships from Varna, Bulgaria...
...Heezen and Glass, the coincidence implied that one phenomenon may have caused the other. The impact on the earth of a mile-wide meteorite might well have disturbed the complex motions of the earth's core that are believed to generate the magnetic field. As a result, the geologists suggest, the field may have flipped. It is also conceivable, they say, that at least some of the previous reversals of the magnetic field were caused by the catastrophic collision of huge meteorites or comets with the earth...
...Newest of the synthetics is Center Court, a smooth, felt-like acrylic carpet that may give lawn tennis its biggest boost in years. Manufactured by J. P. Stevens Co. for former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood's Tennis Development Corp., Center Court is quick-drying, comes in 15-ft.-wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene foam...
...district courts were set up with jurisdiction limited largely to maritime cases and suits between citizens of different states. But as federal law grew after the Civil War, so did the need for U.S. trial courts with broader scope. In 1875, district courts were given jurisdiction over a wide range of federal questions. District judges now handle every sort of lawsuit under the federal sun-including antitrust cases, bank robberies, bankruptcies, draft evasion, obscenity suits, patent infringements, railroad disputes, tax dodging and habeas corpus petitions from state prisoners (up 36% since 1963). Also copyright infringements, kidnaping, moonshining cases, compensation...