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who got the most individual
heaviest guerrilla at- votes in *a nationwide tally.
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nan says. Pdge 2. at least 40 per cent of the popu­
lar vote to win. If none clid,
general election nine there would be a runoff between
say a large percent- the top two.
mdecided and either Opponents charged the 40 per
•e io come in ahead. cent provision could lead to a
minority president, but Rep.
Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., man­
donderry, where the ager of the bill, countered by
) demolish their bar- pointing out that 15 presidents
have been elected with less than
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Today with driver apprehension t o
blemish the inaugural race at
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at Talladega last weekend.
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And that is only part of the
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al drivers who refused to race
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race could not be run with suf­
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ficient degree of safety.
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Brickhouse of Rocky Point,
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N.C., says the only problem he
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the last 25 or so miles of Sun­
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day’s inaugural Talladega 500-
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mile race at speeds of 195 mph
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Cale Yarborough and NASCAR
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plained that the brand new
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and across the land. The first option calls for a
® EXECUTIVE SANDBOXES—- Sunday’s Parade maga­ A national debate already is manned Mars landing in 1982,
zine includes an offbeat feature about the latest thing in under way on proposed goals, the second in 1986 and the third
especially on whether U.S. as­
office furniture for wound-up executives: sandboxes. The tronauts should aim for Mars. sometime after 1990.
whole idea started in Huntsville, says the manufacturer, Under the first and most ex­
who gets $600 apiece for the things. The National Aeronautics and pensive option, the annual
Space Administration welcomes NASA budget would climb
® FOOTBALL TIME — With 1969 college football the discussions. Administrator steadily from the current $3.7
getting into full swing Saturday, limes Sports Editor Bill Thomas O. Paine says: “The billion a year to about $8 billion
Easterling will he on hand for the Alabama-Virginia Tech question of the immediate fu­ for each fiscal year from 1970
game at Blacksburg, Va.; John Pruett ventures to Auburn ture of the space program now through 1980 for a total of $78.2
for the Wake Forest game; Phil Williams covers the Jack­ lies before us. In my view it is a billion by 1982.
sonville State Sam ford contest and Mike McKenzie reports question of pace. The directions The second and third alterna­
on the Alabama A&M-Tuskegee game at Huntsville’s Mil­ are clear. NASA will move tives would keep the annual cost
ton Frank Stadium. ahead on several fronts in a bal­ at the present level for the next
anced program, including sci­ two fiscal years, rising to $5.7
ence, applications, exploration billion in 1976. The second alter­
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i 200-mph Problems Similar to Space Launch. - « ■ - -
track was too bumpy. Cars cars reaching speeds of almost forces and cyclic vibrato ns, stock car, the Dodge Charger tes’
were bouncing badly and tires 200 mph. normally a daily part of astro­ Daytona. Sta
wore out prematurely. They That alone brought out what naut’s jargon, appear to be as­ “Isaac said he found it difficult abc
was probably the largest crowd sociated with the new Talla­ to see over the bumpy areas
said that Talladega was un­ ever assembled in Alabama last dega tri-oval. when running at speeds of 195
safe, and, led by President
weekend. France said some Scott told it this way: mph plus. As the driver was
Petty, the Professional Drivers 64,000 were in the stands and not in the car for extended per­
Association made up of most there appeared to be about that “At Talledega there was a iods of time, nothing further and
of NASCAR’s stars, pulled out many more people wandering marked but subtle difference was discussed. nes:
which resulted in strange after
of the race. That led to NAS­ around afoot. France estimates “But when practice and quali­ non
CAR czar Bill France’s ruling that the facility will bring sev­ effects on drivers testing the fying began at Talladega last to
that henceforth, PDA drivers eral million dollars into the Tal­ new surface. week, new, more alarming
must post an appearance bond ladega area in the remainder of “But the real danger to the symptoms were reported. An­
for future NASCAR grand na­ this year, and nobody knows drivers was just revealed after other Dodge driver, Charlie
tionals. how much next year. a series of conversations with Glotzbach, after pulling into the dent
But Brickhouse, a hungry The story unfolded yesterday Bill Wright, aerospace engineer pit area, exclaimed, “Hell, I er
with Chrysler Corp. Defense
last-minute entry who had when Jeff Scott, Columbia don’t know where I’m going. I Glot
never hit major paydirt, pull­ Broadcasting System writer and and Space Division in Huntsville can’t see.” Pressed further, m.p.
ed out of the PDA and stayed auto racing expert, found that Ala. Glotzbach admitted that, for a thre
in the race, beating NASCAR the big league stock car drivers “According to Wright, he be­ few brief seconds, he experi­ of b:
eminence Bobby Isaacs and might have launched the space gan to have misgivings about the enced momentary blindness “I
some 40 other drivers to the era of auto racing. He found— new track some three weeks while going through certain Rich
wire in his Dodge Daytona. and reported Via the Associated ago, when Dodge driver Bobby turns on the track.” and
Steepest - banked track in Press — thdt space launch Isaac complained of physical “This revelation rang a bell thou;
the world, the 2.66 - mile tri­ phenomena like the Pogo ef­ discomfort after a series of tests - within Bill Wright’s mind. He kept
oval found late model stock fect, frequency, amplitude G- with Chrysler’s new racing recalled that, during the Gemini T