Sport: Daredevil Driver

Stock car racing is a slam-bang sport with its own special sound effects—screeching tires, crumpling fenders and ten-car smashups. It requires nerve and verve for a driver to compete with any success. Tops in this careening career is a slim, wiry young (28) man named Julius Timothy Flock of Hapeville, Ga. A onetime auto salesman, "Tim" Flock, who comes from a family of racing drivers, discovered six years ago that racing a car was more profitable than selling one. His estimated income this season: $40,000.

Tim Flock was one of the starters this week...

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