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...betting more heavily on snatching a part of the high-priced neo-sports market away from the Thunderbird than Studebaker President Sherwood Harry Egbert. If his speedy new Avanti (TIME, April 13) sells well, he intends to transfer some of its sleek Italianate lines to other Studebaker models next year...
...Prize hogs grunted, fat rabbits panted, chicken legs sputtered in deep fat. But most of the 37,718 fans jammed inside the gaily canopied grandstand and the adjacent bleachers had little use for such frippery. Their attention was focused on a burnished clay race track before them, where 15 sleek standardbreds were warming up for the start of trotting's annual classic-the $116,612 Hambletonian...
...there was no merriment aboard the four sleek U.S. 12-meter yachts standing tall and aloof across the water. The final elimination trials were at hand, and crewmen waited tensely for the starting gun that would send them off, two by two, under the stern eye of the selection committee, in pursuit of U.S. yachting's biggest prize: the right to battle Australia's Gretel next month in defense of the III in-year-old America...
...Bonneville Salt Flats, Los Angeles Physician Nathan Ostich, 52, roared down the twelve-mile straightaway in his jet-powered Flying Caduceus racing car for an assault on the world's land speed record (394.2 m.p.h.). He was up to 331 m.p.h. at the three-mile mark when the sleek red-and-chrome car suddenly veered off course. Ostich popped the eight-foot parachute brake; the Flying Caduceus skidded wildly for nearly two miles, snapped off a wheel, hopped briefly into the air and shuddered to a halt. Unhurt, Ostich surveyed the wreckage and growled: "Was I safe at first...
...Newhouse's unopened check book smoldered in his briefcase. Buying newspapers is not only his chief pleasure; it is the purpose of his life. Surely there must be a paper for sale somewhere in the vicinity. On impulse, Sam headed for Houston. There he goggled at the sights: sleek Cadillacs schooling in the streets, glittering shops, new buildings all over the city, and more new buildings rising on nearly every block. A heady boomtown flavor hung in the humid air. Without pausing even to examine a copy of the Post, Hous ton's leading daily, Newhouse sought...