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...brief history, Mexico's border-to-border Pan-American road race, world's longest (1,908 miles) and most punishing, has more than earned its reputation as a mankiller: in its first four years, it took the lives of 17 drivers and spectators. Before this year's opening gun was fired, two Argentine competitors were killed in pre-race tests. Before the contestants roared across the flat homestretch to Juarez last week, so many cars had missed turns, somersaulted off the road and plowed through packs of spectators, that more than a score were injured and seven...
...Yardlings, whose longest offensive drive in the game included only two first downs, were never able to start their potential passing attack. Princeton, aided by several breaks and Crimson penalties, scored quickly in the first period and continued to add points in each of the following quarters...
...finger firmly on the public pulse. Corporation surveys showed that customers wanted shorter, easier-to-maneuver cars with less chrome and plenty of interior height so nobody mashed his hat. The result: Chrysler sales plummeted nearly 50% as the great U.S. car buyer turned to the longest, slinkiest cars he could find. Last week, taking no chances on 1955, Chrysler President Lester L. ("Tex") Colbert showed newsmen a 1955 line that is as long and low as anything on the road. The company, said Colbert, spent $250 million on the greatest design change in company history...
With the Heptagonals only three weeks away, Coach Bill McCurdy will probably try to acquaint his runners with the five mile course, the longest distance they have run this season. Both the Hops and the IC4A meet are run Van Cortlandt Park...
...young Marlon, better known in those days as Bud, life was an unbroken series of contests: Who could eat fastest, hold his breath longest, open his mouth widest, tell the biggest lie, do the least homework? One day he and some other boys invented the best game of all: Who can sink farthest in the quicksand along the river bank without hollering for help? (Luckily, nobody won.) Bud and sister Frances (now Mrs. Richard Loving, a painter, living in Mundelein, Ill.) ran away from home regularly every Sunday afternoon. On Saturdays Bud rummaged devotedly through the neighbors' rubbish, came...