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...rifles-all poking skyward from the taller buildings of the capital. In the streets below, grim-faced boys snapped through the manual of arms with wooden rifles while pretty girls in pantaloons hurled mock grenades through automobile tires, many of them scoring two hits out of three over 25 yds. Beyond the city, crews of workers put the last touches on more sophisticated armaments: the launch pads of Soviet-supplied SAM II antiaircraft missile sites...
Rise & Shine. Rationing prevails everywhere, and Hanoi residents are permitted only 51 yds. of cotton cloth per year. Once girls in elegant silk ao dais strolled the shaded boulevards; their modern counterparts scrub the streets clad in floppy brown pajamas and gauze face masks. The only bar in town is in the former Metropole Hotel (now the Reunification), and it caters only to foreigners...
...After just one lap, Clark was already 2 sec.-or 100 yds. -ahead of his nearest pursuer. But for 39 more laps, he coolly, relentlessly poured it on until he had lapped all but three of his rivals, smashed the official lap record (82.39 m.p.h.) three times in succession and 15 times in all-even tually raising it to a fantastic 90.59 m.p.h. He did it on a course that he had never even seen until two days before the race, a course that ranks as one of the toughest in the world: 51 curves and 102 gear changes...
...competition as well as against the clock in carefully staged set-piece races. Ranged against him at Helsinki was a raft of world stars, among them Australia's Ron Clarke and U.S. Olympic Winner Bob Schul; Jazy beat them all, turning on his sprint in the final 200 yds. to win by 5 yds. and come within 1.8 sec. of Clarke's four-week old world record...
...make gasoline buying even more enjoyable, the industry is placing its pumps in more attractive and convenient settings. "Gone are the days of the dirty, square metal station set on a piece of property 50 yds. by 50 yds.," says Clifford Venarde, Shell Oil's real estate manager. Major oil companies last year earmarked 65% of their capital expenditures for sprucing up and enlarging existing stations and for building handsome landscaped new ones. Shell, Sun Oil and Gulf are combining many of their new stations with restaurants, and Sun has opened a station in Canton, Ohio, with a built...