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• The International Track Association’s meet was held in L.A. in 1973. Lee Evans, Vince Matthews, and Larry James announced they were going to try to break the record for the indoor mile run. The race proceeded smoothly until the final lap. Evans was in the lead when he saw the officials had miscounted the laps and had stretched the tape over the finish line when there was still another lap to go. Evans lifted the tape over his head and kept on running. James and Matthews thought the race was finished and quit running. Evans missed setting a new record by one second-- the second it had taken him to lift the tape over his head. • Lane Lohr was competing in the pole vault at a track meet held at the University of Illinois on a windy day in 1985. Just after clearing the bar, a gust of wind blew the pole underneath him. As he fell, the pole rode up his thigh inside his track shorts, ripping them completely off. When he landed in the pit he was wearing only his jock strap. The crowd went wild. An official delivered a towel to Lohr, who acknowledged the applause of the crowd before heading to the locker room for a spare pair of shorts. He placed sixth in the finals and qualified for All-American status. • High jumper Jeff Woodard was competing in a track meet at the University of Alabama in 1981. He got a perfect plant and cleared the bar easily at 7 feet 1 3/4 inches. His jump was so strong that instead of landing in the pit, he flew completely beyond it and came down in the middle of the steeple jump’s three foot deep pool.

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• When David Pearson was racing in the Rebel 500 at the Darlington Raceway, he pulled his race car over for a pit stop. His crew went about the business of changing all four of his tires, but Pearson didn’t notice what they were doing because he kept his eyes riveted on the leader of the race who was also in for a pit stop. Pearson was under the mistaken impression that the crew was replacing the right tires only. They loosened the left tires as they were tightening the right tires. When Pearson gunned his engine and started to pull out, a crew member yelled, “Whoa!” but Pearson thought he said, “GO!” Fifty yards later, both left wheels left the car and went bouncing down the track. • At the Smoky Mountain Raceway in 1968, Buddy Baker’s Dodge blew a tire, spun out of control, and crashed into the wall. Hurt and dazed, Baker needed a quick trip to the hospital. The ambulance, which was actually an old hearse, arrived and Baker was put on a wheeled stretcher and loaded into the back. Unfortunately, the back door didn’t latch and when the ambulance pulled away, the back door flew open and Buddy, still strapped to the stretcher, went rolling out the back and down the racetrack. All the other race cars came around the corner heading right for the rolling gurney. Baker narrowly missed the oncoming autos, with the ambulance attendants chasing after him. Safely back in the vehicle, they headed to the hospital. Baker’s bad luck was still hanging around, though-- and when the ambulance ran a red light, they had to swerve suddenly to avoid an accident with another car. The hearse skidded up onto the sidewalk, plowing into a set of garbage cans. The ambulance finally arrived at the hospital in spite of a flat tire. After being treated for fractured ribs and a concussion, Baker refused the offer of a ride back to the track in the ambulance. Cont'd next page!

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• Keith McGuigan of Canada parked his car in front of an auto wrecking business in 1981 while he went out back to look for a door latch that would fit his car. When he returned after finding the perfect latch, he found that his car was now a subcompact. He had parked it in a row of junkers waiting to be crushed. • Richard Horan of Westwood, Massachusetts, went snowmobiling in New Hampshire in 1983. He parked his car and snowmobile trailer on a back road and left for a day of fun. He returned in the evening to find his rig had been run over by a train. Unbeknownst to him, he’d parked smack in the middle of the Maine Central Railroad tracks. The rails were hidden under snow. When he returned later with a tow truck, he found a ticket for improper parking on the windshield of the wreck. • In 1981 Peter Stankiewicz of Rockville, Maryland, slammed on the brakes, jumped out of his car, and dove over a bridge into the Potomac River to rescue a man whose truck had crashed through the bridge railing and plunged 60 feet into the water. Stankiewicz succeeded in rescuing the driver and hauling him to shore. Only then did he discover that his car had been towed and impounded because it was blocking traffic. • A car got stuck in the mud of San Diego Bay. Tow truck operator Larry Cavner was called to the scene, but his tow truck also got stuck. A backup tow truck likewise got stuck. Then he hired an amphibious vehicle, which promptly got stuck. Next he called for a bulldozer, which rescued all four vehicles. The tab for Mr. Cavner was $16,000. The original motorist paid nothing. • Alan Lewis was a bus driver in Wales in 1982 when he drove his double-decker bus under a single-decker bridge. Half of the upper deck was completely sheared off. “I usually drive single-deckers. I just forgot I was in a double-decker,” he said.

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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT • Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the U.S., was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a bout with polio he suffered in 1921 when he was nearly 40 years old. During his entire 12 year presidency, he could not walk a step without braces or crutches. Yet, he travelled more than any previous president, wrestled with his sons, and swam. He allowed his birthday in January to be used by the March of Dimes to kick off their fundraising efforts to raise money for research to prevent polio and other childhood diseases. • Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were distant cousins who knew each other from childhood. When they got married, Eleanor’s uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, gave away the bride. • Roosevelt was the first president to appoint a woman to the Cabinet, choosing Frances Perkins for Secretary of Labor. His wife Eleanor applauded his choice, but offered sympathy, saying she knew it must have been difficult for him when the labor leaders pressured him to choose one of their own men. He replied, “I’d rather have trouble with them for an hour than trouble with you for the rest of my life!” • Roosevelt did a lot of hand-shaking when he

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