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...ninth lap, Clark was only a car length behind. Seconds later, he had the lead. The rain had stopped and the track was drying now. Surtees wrung a few more r.p.m. from his Ferrari, bypassed Clark and opened a 3-sec. gap. Unable to beat Surtees on the straights, Clark fell in behind the faster Ferrari, waiting for opportunity to knock again. None came, so Clark made his own-with an astonishing maneuver that only a handful of drivers would dare attempt: he simply slid around Surtees on the outside of a hairpin turn...
...Summer School Message Center was established a few years ago to fill a communication gap which exists during the summer at Harvard, since relatively few dormitory residents have private phones and none of the dorms has a reception desk...
...felt about the party and its 1964 nominee, he had to take some action that would redeem his own political image. Just before the plane landed, he instructed his aides to arrange a meeting for the next night at the governor's mansion at Indiantown Gap, some 20 miles from Harrisburg...
...programmed its vote-analysis computer and declared Goldwater the winner with 53% of the vote. As of that time, the polling places were still open in northern California, and CBS suffered a few bad moments when the later returns began to arrive and showed Rocky closing the gap and even moving ahead. All the while, NBC, locked in hot competition with CBS, quite nervously stuck by its position that the race was close, and refused to name a winner. In the end it was NBC's less venturesome attitude that gave the viewer a better understanding of how close...
...stressed that it was necessary to consider the way policy is made in the United States. Contending that most decisions are made on economic rather than ideological grounds, he pointed to increased trade with South Africa since the UN boycott and the discovery of a 'missile gap" when the defense economy was faltering...