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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carnival Revival. Before that oozy intervention, Resurrection City had begun to take on a unique, throbbing personality. Life in the compound reminded some of a revival meeting within a carnival within an army camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PLAGUE AFTER PLAGUE | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...owes its development to Galileo, Pascal, some expert gamblers and the U.S. Census Bureau. Probability theory says that if a jar contains 1,000,000 beans-half black and half white-and somebody scoops up 100 of them, he will almost always draw half black and half white, within a 3% margin of error. Gallup views the nation as a big bowl of beans. On a strictly random basis, he picks 300 sections of the U.S. and selects five voters in each section. Then he sends his interviewers-who are mostly middle-aged women working part time-to poll those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DO POLLS HELP DEMOCRACY? | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

Granatelli towed five cars through the gates when practice started May 1. Within a week the STP cars were well established as the fastest cars at the track...

Author: By Stephen J. Potter, | Title: Turbines Will Dominate Memorial Day 500 | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

Right next to him sat Graham Hill in another turbine, and in the fourth row was Art Pollard in the last STP car. Pollard had never even been in the car prior to his qualifying run. No piston-powered car came within two miles per hour of Leonard's record-breaking...

Author: By Stephen J. Potter, | Title: Turbines Will Dominate Memorial Day 500 | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

...same degree that piston cars are, but since they run on kerosene in racing and qualifying, they suffer no speed loss due to fuel changes. Leonard and Pollard can turn laps at over 169 mph with full tanks, while a piston-powered car would be lucky to run within five mph of that...

Author: By Stephen J. Potter, | Title: Turbines Will Dominate Memorial Day 500 | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

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