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...first cars were slapped together by backyard mechanics, and the races had a pleasantly informal air. Now the winning cars come almost exclusively from more than 20 Italian, English, French and U.S. firms-including renowned racing names like Lotus, Cooper and OSCA-who are building the new cars at peak capacity. Europeans are grooming their Formula Junior cars with Grand Prix care and cash. When New York's grand old Vanderbilt Cup was revived in June after a 22-year lapse, the promoters shrewdly chose the Formula Junior as the competition class, drew such top drivers as Walt Hansgen...
...When Walker bumped to a 200-m.p.h. landing on the sun-hardened mud of California's Rogers Dry Lake ten minutes later, a check of his instruments showed that at his peak speed, just as his last ounce of fuel burned away, he had hit better than 2,150 m.p.h., faster than any man in history had ever flown before...
They call it "the Diamond"-a 1,000-ft. slab of granite that slants out from the mountainside like a giant teetering tombstone, and guards the eastern approach to Longs Peak, a 14,256-ft. tower in the Rockies some 75 miles northwest of Denver. The stretch of rock is one of the last great unconquered climbs in the U.S.* Last week a pair of seasoned climbers from California checked their gear and set out to become the first men to mount the Diamond...
...might have quit except we burned our bridges behind us when we pulled most of our pitons," said Rearick. "We could never have gotten back down to Broadway." Then he made a terse entry in the logbook at the summit of Longs Peak: "First ascent of the Diamond...
...Considered so difficult that the National Park Service has refused all applicants until this year, though Longs Peak itself has been climbed innumerable times by other routes...