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Just have had a rough month. It's not dead.

1980 WINSTON 500 The Gray Ghost Couldn't Be Caught at Talladega. A great day for Buddy Baker, but a disastrous day for about 20 other competitors who suffered mechanical failures in the first one hundred laps of the race including championship competitors Darrell Waltrip, whose day was...

CHAPTER 2 CHRISTENSEN IN CONGRESS Christensen during his early Congressional service The first years in Congress were fairly happy ones for Christensen. Behind the pugnacious political style was actually a very sociable man whom his fellow Republican Congressman George Norris of Nebraska...

CHAPTER 1 WILD WEST ORIGINS July 19, 1869. Peter and Sophia Christensen, a pair of Danish immigrants to the United States had settled in a small farmstead in the Southern Idaho town of Weston, a town so named because it sat on the west bank of the Bear River, the largest tributary of the Great...

This is not intended to be a particularly long TL, but it is one I've wanted to write for awhile, even though I have another TL currently in the works, I thought I could start work on this one given that it's a much narrower subject matter and only intends to cover the rise of one Presidential...

1980 CRC CHEMICALS REBEL 500 Sterling Marlin Victorious in Hoss Ellington ride In a stunning upset, young Sterling Marlin picked up career win number one at Darlington driving the Hoss Ellington car, finishing a full three seconds ahead of second place Benny Parsons. Running a "not quite...

I'm hoping to have time on Sunday. I've been very busy recently.

Well, Douglas did treat pretty much every clerk that way, male or female. In Carol's case, she stood her ground with him, which wound up being a mistake because she interpreted a Douglas apology as sarcasm. After that, he simply ignored her and worked through the other clerk and a male clerk who...

A lot about Douglas' late tenure on the Court, including his particularly contentious relationship with one of his clerks during the 1972 term, Carol Bruch, is described in the Bob Woodward book, The Brethren.

1980 CAROLINA 500 Cale Yarborough celebrates another victory Cale Yarborough set the pace at Rockingham with a dominating performance, leading 256 laps of 492, especially after Buddy Baker, who had looked like the only car that could've kept pace with him, crashed out on lap 458. Yarborough...

Well, I'll thread it by season (and offseason) since I do multiple races in each post, so hopefully that makes it a bit easier for you.

I've added a threadmark for the beginning of the 1979 season as well, although every single post of mine in this thread before that was just the 79 season so it didn't really seem necessary to mark the thread until the end of the season and the beginning of the next.

1980 WINSTON WESTERN 500 Darrell Waltrip kicked off the season with a win at Riverside The 1980 season kicked off with Darrell Waltrip, disappointed at losing the championship last year, finding victory lane at the two mile Riverside track after 119 laps. Waltrip dominated most of the way...

NEWS - Bob Rahilly and Butch Mock (RahMoc Enterprises) announce they will be attempting a full 1980 schedule fielding a Chevrolet driven by 36 year old John Anderson. - Ricky Rudd leaves Junie Donlavey's team. Donlavey signs journeyman driver Sam Sommers to replace him. Sommers had a good 1977...

1979 AMERICAN 500 Petty edges out Parsons at The Rock Finally passing Waltrip for the points lead late in the season, Richard Petty edged out Benny Parsons at Rockingham by .17 seconds. Parsons, who had won the previous week, and had run a very good season, expressed some disappointment that...