The Deadliest Car In History

from Inside Hook THE DEADLIEST RACE CAR IN HISTORY HAD LOOKS THAT COULD KILL, TOO Let’s hope this one handles better than the original BY EVAN BLEIER At the 1955 edition of Le Mans, a ‘53 Austin-Healey 100 was at the center of a horrific crash that left 85...

Freddie’s Bash

from INTERVIEW Freddie Mercury’s Saturday Night in Sodom a night of debauchery In the colossal Imperial Ballroom inside the Fairmont New Orleans, Freddie Mercury—expert partier who lived by the mantra “excess all areas”—overwhelmed 400 guests at the launch of Queen’s...

1968 Predictions on 2018

from The New Yorker The 1968 Book That Tried to Predict the World of 2018 By Paul Collins For every amusingly wrong prediction in “Toward the Year 2018,” a speculative book from 1968, there’s one unnervingly close to the mark. / Illustration by Robert Beatty If you...

Ice Bowl 50

from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Ice Bowl, 50 years later: An oral history of the Packers-Cowboys 1967 NFL Championship Game ON DEC. 31, 1967, THE PACKERS EDGED THE COWBOYS, 21-17, IN A GAME FOR THE AGES. HERE’S THE STORY OF THE ICE BOWL AS TOLD BY THOSE...