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These provocative opinions appear in The Evolution of Man and Society (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London), the latest book by Cyril Dean Darlington, 65, a British geneticist, Fellow of the Royal Society and Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford. None of these academic credentials describe Darlington's true vocation. He is an intellectual maverick, dedicated to setting the scientific Establishment on its ear. His new book is the culmination of the author's long assault on the complacent conviction, still defended by many social scientists, that man represents a kind of dead end on the evolutionary trail...
Bernard Ballyn, History Philip Darlington. Biology H. Stuart Hughes. History Harvey Mansfield. Government Thomas Standish. Engineering
Saturday, September 28 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). U.S. Olympic men's and women's gymnastic trials from Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif., and the roaring Southern 500 Stock Car Championship from Darlington...
...fans obviously disagree. Last year 1,500,000 of them turned out to watch 167 drivers compete for $1,045,545 in prize money on the Grand National circuit. and 65,000 were on hand for last week's Southern 500. The cars they saw whipping through Darlington's straightaways at speeds up to 155 m.p.h. were anything but stock. Hidden under the electric-blue hood of Petty's Plymouth Belvedere GTX was a 426-cu.-in. "hemi-head" racing engine that generated 520 h.p. and burned gasoline at the rate of a gallon every three miles...
...fetish of braking and shifting at precisely the same points each time around a track. Petty varies his routine: "I drive by feel," he says. "Sometimes I'll go into a corner a full car length farther than at other times before braking or shifting." Last week, on Darlington's narrow, 11-mile track, with its notoriously tight corners, Petty's feel turned a race into a rout. Gunning into the lead at the start, he stayed there for all but 19 out of 364 laps, coasted to a five-lap victory that was worth...