Sport: Rally in the Rockies

Aspen groves cut swaths of delicate yellow flame through the valleys, and fresh snow coated the peaks. But few of the fiercely competitive driver-navigator teams in the 66 sports cars that set out from the outskirts of Denver last week in the Continental Divide Rally had time for any sightseeing. They were too engrossed in solving the exacting problems of driving and navigating presented by the nation's toughest test in the growing postwar sport of "rallying." Boasted one official of the Sports Car Club of America: "One goof and they're out."

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