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Kage 14/1 he tsattalion/rnday, April lo, lyoo
Drivers from U.S., Canada
to race in 20th Aggiecross
Sound Of Music
Melanie Saltier, a freshman civil engineering ma
jor and member of die Brazos Valley Symphony
Photo by Anthony S. Casper
Orchestra, practices in preparation for this Sun
day’s concert at Texas A&M.
By Shelly Simmonds
Reporter
The 20th annual Aggiecross will
be run this weekend with compet
itors from all over the United States,
said David Agerton, president of the
Texas A&M Sports Car Club.
There are about 100 competitors
in the race from all over, Agerton
said. There are cars from other
states besides Texas such as Okla
homa, Louisiana and also some from
Canada, he said.
The Aggiecross is an event that
has been put on once a semester by
the Sports Car Club since 1970. It is
held at the Texas World Speedway,
which is about nine miles outside of
College Station.
Agerton said, “We’re the only
people that use the speedway for an
autocross type of event, no one else
does that.”
Aggiecross is a high-speed, solo
road racing event with cars compet
ing in separate classes, Agerton said.
The classes are based mainly on the
size, weight and horsepower of the
car, he said.
“This is so we don’t have a Volks
wagen competing against a Corvet
te,” Agerton said. “In each one of
the different classes, the cars in it
have a different level of potential
performance."
Aggiecross will be Saturday and
Sunday, April 19 and 20 at the
speedway. Agerton said applications
are still available. The lee is $40 for
members and $50 for nonmembers,
he said.
"Really what we do is we have a
sports car club and it’s for people to
drive a sports car the way asp
car was meant to be driven,".if!
ton said.
“We provide events for thetl
release their anxieties of 1*1
cooped up behind the wheel of jl
car and only being able to drist*
mph or 55 mph,” he added.
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rated bv the state, Agerton said. ]1
means that the club is insured!
more protected, he said. If ami®
action were to be taken, itwoiilll
taken against the corporationJi
not the club members, he said.
'Old lady of the sea' stays afloat
Swimmer, 56, still seeks challenges
FORI LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Stella
Fay lor doesn't object when she’s referred to as
“the old lady of the sea.” After all, the 56-year-
old marathon sw immer has been challenging the
Atlantic Ocean for nearly eight years.
“I’m going to try it again,” she vows, standing
on the sandv beach, her blue eyes looking east
over the horizon toward the Bahamas. “This
time. I’m going to make it."
Tavlor's elusive goal is to swim from the island
chain to Florida’s Gold Coast, an arduous task
she has tried and failed three times.
To prepare lor an attempt in May, the 5-foot-
5-inch athlete has gone into full-time training,
exercising, bicycling and swimming 7,()()() meters
clailv under the eye of her trainer, Bob Duenkel,
sw imming coach of Northeast High School.
Also planned, for August, is another English
Channel swim, a feat she accomplished in 1973
and 1975. Taylor was 46 when she made her sec
ond crossing, giving her the record for the oldest
woman to ever conquer the 21-mile distance.
"Fm going to do the Channel again so no one
can take my record,” says Taylor, for whom mar
athon swimming is an obsession. However, it has
“Financially, it hasn't been reward
ing. Fve never been able to cash in
on my fame. ”
— Stella Taylor, a 56-year-old mar
athon swimmer.
provided little material gain for her other than
plaques, mementos, some guest appearances and
media attention. Currently unemployed, she sub
sists on meager savings from jobs that, over the
years, have allowed her to train for her swims.
“Financially, it hasn’t been rewarding,” she ad
mits. “I’ve never been able to cash in on my
fame.”
Surprisingly, Taylor didn’t get involved with
marathon swimming until she was 40, a time
when most people gravitate to less strenuous
sports.
Born in Bristol, England, she came to the
United States when she was 19. She spent four
years in a convent, but left before taking her
vow’s to become a nun.
Despite her late start in the sport, some of Tay
lor’s sw’ims were exceedingly difficult.
In 1971, she swam a 14-mile closed course at
the Aswan Dam in Egypt. “It was a very hard
swim because of the currents and it was 100 de
grees overhead and 54 degrees in the water,” she
recalls. Later that year, she swam another long
distance event in the Nile River.
She swam round-trip around Fort Lauderdale
in 1976 and on June 13, 1977, she set a record
for completing the 40-mile distance across Lake
George in New York.
In 1981, Taylor swam the 24 miles of Loch
Ness in Scotland in less than 19 hours while the
water temperature was 48 degrees and, that same
year, she swam 40 miles across Lake Okeechobee
from Moore Haven to Belle Glade.
Taylor prefers the Atlantic challenge to all
others.
“It’s the sharks and the dangers,” is how’ she
analyzes her goal. “I like some danger for it to be
a challenge. Once I’ve made it, I’ll be happy.”
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curity guard foiled what could
have been a terrorist massacre.
The El Al airline guard, at
Heathrow Airport, found a bomb
in the false bottom of an Irishwo
man’s hand luggage as she tried
to board the Israeli airline’s Flight
016 to Tel Aviv.
About 360 people were aboard
the targeted Boeing 747.
The woman was arrested but
her name was not immediately re
leased. British police said she may
have been duped by her boyf
riend, an Arab, and may not have
known about the explosives.
A search was mounted for the
man.
In Tunis, tw’o young Tunisians
on a motorbike tossed firebombs
at a compound housing U.S. Ma
rine guards and other U.S. Em
bassy staff members, setting an
American-owned automobile
afire, U.S. and Tunisian officials
reported.
No one was hurt.
Police said one youth was
rested and the other escaped.
To the south, in the Sudantst
capital of Khartoum, the Uj
Embassy was preparing
airlift evacuation of more tint
200 embassy staff members am
dependents.
Gunmen in Khartoum ski
and seriously wounded an Amm
can embassy technician Tuesda
neat the Libyan embassy.
An embassy statement saidta
anti-American threats issued!
neighboring Libya, which k
grown politically closer toSuth
in recent months, forced th
e\nc nation.
Fifteen thousand protester
demonstrated Wednesday it
Khartoum, burning Ametia
Hags and chanting, “Down,Do*;
USA.!”
Since Tuesday’s U.S. attad
Libya, the tight security ateml
sies and other U.S. install!
worldwide has been toughentt
still further.
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