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"O great American multitude and sports fans everywhere. Today, we inaugurate the 20th Annual Trans-Continental Road Race. Today, the five bravest young men and women in this greatest of nations will risk their lives in the greatest sporting event since the days of Spartacus! Three days hence, a new American champion will be crowned for all the world to behold, in awe, in respect, in fear!"
"All right, all right! This is Junior Bruce, your buddy-buddy and mine. And I'll be giving you the blow-by-blow, play-by-play when the kings and queens of the open road roar onto the track! Do I hear the sound of engines? It's Calamity Jane Kelly, queen of the road, at the wheel of that mean, ornery stud bull!"
"Zany Janey, winner of this year's trials at Watkins Glen, placed second in 1998 and led in last year's second lap until she went out with gear trouble. Her fans and lovers everywhere wish Janey better luck this year."
"My children, whom I love so dearly, it has been my duty in the long and difficult years since the World Crash of '79 to serve you as best I could. Never before in history have masses forgone all comfort, so that the spirit of genius might thrive and seek the golden key to a new time of plenty in the fertile field of minority privilege. And now, my children, the drivers are ready. The world is waiting. Once more, I give you what you want."
"David Carradine as "Frankenstein""
"Simone Griffeth as Annie Smith (Frankenstein's navigator)"
"Sylvester Stallone as Joe "Machine Gun" Viterbo"
"Mary Woronov as Jane "Calamity Jane" Kelly"
"Roberta Collins as Matilda "The Hun""
"Martin Kove as Ray "Nero the Hero" Lonagan"
"Louisa Moritz as Myra (Joe's navigator)"
"Don Steele as Junior Bruce (race announcer)"
"Joyce Jameson as Grace Pander (race announcer)"
"Carle Bensen as Harold (race announcer)"
"Sandy McCallum as Mr. President"
"Paul Laurence as Special Agent"
"Harriet Medin as Thomasina Paine"
"Vince Trankina as Lieutenant Fury"
"Bill Morey as Deacon"
"Fred Grandy as Herman 'The German' Boch (Matilda's navigator)"
"William Shephard as Pete (Jane's navigator)"
"Leslie McRay as Cleopatra (Nero's navigator)"
"Wendy Bartel as Laurie"
"Jack Favorite as Henry"
"Sandy Ignon as FBI Agent"
"John Landis as Mechanic"
"Darla McDonell as Rhonda Bainbridge"
"Roger Rook as Radio Operator"
"Wendy Dio as Blonde Masseuse"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.