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Pole Winner Foyt narrowly escaped injury when the rear suspension of his Lotus-Ford broke and the left rear wheel snapped off. Veteran Parnelli Jones, who won the 500 in 1963, was badly shaken up in a similar accident: he was drifting through the northwest turn at 150 m.p.h. when the suspension of his Lotus collapsed. "All of a sudden the back end started steering the front," Parnelli shuddered later. The car slammed into the wall, slid 570 ft., spun, slid again, and finally came to rest 110 ft. onto the infield grass...
High Riding. Ford's recent sales spurt is largely the result of a $40 million remodeling job last fall on its medium-price Taunus models (price: $1,689 to $2,330), which were handsomely restyled, given more powerful engines and equipped with front-wheel disk brakes...
Backfire. The star of this sleek French melodrama is a Triumph sports convertible. Shipped from Barcelona to Beirut, the car gets past customs but has difficulty getting out of town. Sluggish performance. "I can scarcely shift into high," complains the man at the wheel. The svelte blonde smuggler at his side smiles and tells him why. The Triumph has a $300,000 paint job. Under a surface coat of white, its body is gilded with 300 kilos of solid gold...
...High Oaks Home for Christian Scientists in Philadelphia. As a nurse rushed into the room, Miss Butts fled and drove away in her car. Six hours later, the car was found parked outside the police station in Bethesda, Md., a Washington suburb. Miss Butts was crumpled over the wheel, dead of a bullet through her head. Beside her body was a note: "Today I killed my best friend, Mary Happer. I had to let her find relief from the cancer pain that was killing her so cruelly...
What future political sociologists will forget is the second-level politics, the short-lived, purely campus agitation that does not catch on to the main wheel of history. These issues are enormously varied from college to college--sometimes ambiguous sometimes unimportant. Small numbers of people are involved. Because these activities are not dramatic enough to be widely publicized, they will be left out of the bound volume of political activity. Yet perhaps they will have a more immediate effect than the larger, better-known political currents...