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With their sharklike snouts and flat fannies, the homemade Chaparrals of Oilman Jim Hall, 28, would not win any automotive beauty contests. Their Chevrolet engines put out 450 h.p. compared with 385 h.p. for the Fords and 350 for the Ferraris, but instead of manual gear boxes, they had-that's right-automatic transmissions. "Better acceleration," Hall insisted, and in a practice run for last week's twelve-hour Prix de 1'Endurance, he tooled around Sebring's 5.2-mile course in 2 min. 57.6 sec.-nine seconds better than the fastest Ford...
...change of heart simply because they see rising opportunities for trade with the West and did not want their pirating to stand in the way. Moreover, Russian technology is beginning to devise a number of items that other nations might be interested in (one example: sophisticated oil-drilling gear), and the Russians want to get paid for their use. "The Soviets have come to realize that they may get more profit from joining than from staying out," says Dr. Georg Bodenhausen, head of the Geneva-based International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, which administers the Paris pact...
...they do the sea, and if the spacecraft drops into an unscheduled spot, there are generally at least a few local people to report its descent and help the crewmen. Perhaps the greatest advantage is that a spacecraft designed for a ground landing does not have to carry flotation gear or be made waterproof...
Without question, Bradley is one of the greatest college basketball players in history. Harvard fans may have been a bit skeptical of the Tigers' golden boy when Princeton played here last month, but Bradley seldom goes into high gear unless the pressure is on. In the Eastern regionals, he was superhuman. Against Providence, he sank 14 of 20 field goals, 13 of 13 free throws, and made nine assists...
...Killing Duel. For last week's Continental, Ford turned two prototype GTs over to Carroll Shelby, the brash Texan who designed the Ford-powered Cobra, a solid contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy...