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...several less-practiced contestants upset in the swift water. Then the boatmen got a briefing on the main race. Besides the two Germans, there were three French entries, a dozen Americans. Their paddle-powered craft: a two-man canoe, three rubber rafts, a two-man kayak and eight single-seater kayaks. Boatmen who preferred to race unencumbered by life jackets signed releases, relieving the race committee of responsibility...
...cylinder, two-seater Jaguar speedster was an immediate success, started right in winning road races. Last July, for the third time in as many years, a Jaguar won the 2,000-mile Alpine Rally, a mountain race so grueling that out of 95 starters only 23 finished. A month later, on France's Monthlery track, a production-line Jaguar covered 16,851.73 miles in seven days & nights of continuous driving at an average speed of 100.31 m.p.h. Later, another Jaguar set a night-driving speed record of 83.09 m.p.h. at Goodwood, England's twistiest, most arduous track...
...five U.S. teams, flying single-seater, all-metal Schweizer sailplanes, might have done even better in the air, had they not been so fouled up on the ground. Glider pilots from Britain and France, who were backed by government " funds, came equipped with their own weathermen and radio crews that promptly dispatched retrieving trailers to landing points. But the U.S. team, forced to pay its own way, had no radios and had to rely on the strictly unilingual Spanish telephone system to trace its pilots. Some of them, down in isolated spots, waited hours before getting back to Madrid...
North American's Dog is a single-seater, but the Starfire carries both a pilot and a radar operator. Some Air Force authorities think that, even with a troop of electronic assistants, there is too much concentrated work on a fast interceptor for one man to handle...
Horsy Movement. Author Purdy is not living on all cylinders himself, because he does not yet own a Lancia (only a handful of U.S. fanciers do), but by Kings of the Road standards he is not doing so badly: he owns and drives a 1927, two-seater Bugatti. He also owns an Isotta-Fraschini '28, a Peugot '14, and even a comparatively Johnny-come-lately Citroën 1939. He has also owned a Mercer Raceabout two-seater, vintage 1912, a real American beau ty. To drive a 1912 Mercer, says Purdy, is to feel "the movement...