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Move Over, Cousin. And how about the competition? There were the 1965 factory Fords, breezing cockily around the 2½-mile oval, confident of sweeping everything in sight. Zoom! Past them flashed two 1964 Mercurys, privately entered cousins belonging to Bud Moore, a taciturn garage owner from Spartanburg, S.C. In the time trials, Darel Dieringer clocked 166.66 m.p.h. in a Ford-powered Mercury to win the pole position for the start of the 500. Somehow, Moore was getting more out of his power plants than the factory experts who built them in the first place...
...Zoom. First to get a look at the pictures was a committee of scientists headed by Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Arizona, a man who has spent much of his life peering at the moon through the world's best telescopes. "What has been achieved today is truly remarkable," he announced. "We have made progress in resolution not by a factor of 10, or 100, which would have been already remarkable, but by a factor of 1,000. The moon, which a good telescope can bring to a distance of 500 miles, has been brought...
...brother likes to zoom along in high gear, but Sam Houston Johnson, 50, is a more conservative Texas sort: he just gets into trouble going backwards. Last week, he backed his 1964 Pontiac out of an Austin parking lot, then banged into a passing delivery truck, wound up with "minor fender" damage, a ticket for reckless driving and a $10 fine...
...this newest of the world's 61 Hiltons, guests register at the garage entrance, get their room keys by pneumatic tube from the main lobby, and zoom up the spiral ramp and start looking for their room number when the floor beneath the car matches the color...
...modern devices. It is now possible to eavesdrop on a conversation held in the middle of an empty prairie by simply pointing a beam of light from 500 yards away. New cameras can take pictures in total darkness without the use of infra-red light. Finely ground lenses can zoom in from blocks away to pick up the fine print on an insurance policy. But the Soviets like the more old-fashioned and romantic gadgets, mostly, it seems, from a native passion for melodrama...