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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smell (burning alcohol from the cars and frying chicken from the picnickers), a special excitement (speeds up to 195 m.p.h.) and a special danger (21 deaths in 55 years). Not to mention the special rewards consisting of the money (total purse: $628,400) and prestige that go to the winner of the world's richest auto race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Easy Does It | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

Braking to a stop in Victory Lane, Winner Clark found himself confronted by blonde Suzanne Devine, the 500 Festival queen. Ordinarily, winners kiss the queen; coolly Clark shook her hand. He professed to be unimpressed by the extent of his winnings: $140,000 for finishing first, another $28,500 in lap money, a Plymouth automobile, a ring, a diamond-studded pin, $1,000 worth of clothes. "What will you do with it?" Clark was asked. "I don't know. Colin Chapman will decide that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Easy Does It | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...pickings are nothing to complain about. Bret's victory in the Matron Stake was worth $10,717, bringing his winnings so far this year to $110,000. But the horse isn't letting all that easy money go to his head. Every time he visits the winner's circle nowadays, Bret demurely dips his forelegs and curtsies to the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harness Racing: A Bond Named Bret | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...screamed at Walcott: "The bum is out! The fight is over! The fight is over!" Walcott nodded, turned back-only to discover that Liston had managed to get on his feet. At that point, Joe grabbed Cassius' arm and hoisted it high into the air. Clay was the winner by a knockout. The official time of the K.O.: 1 min. of the first round-fastest ever in a heavyweight title fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Theater of the Absurd | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

Married. Helen Sobel, 56, onetime chorus girl turned bridge master, Charles Goren's favorite partner and with him winner of 32 major championships since 1939; and Stanley Smith, 50, Detroit accountant; her third heart bid, his second; in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 4, 1965 | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

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