The Atmosphere People

August, 1974

"Hi, Honey, how tall are you?""Five, two.""Good. Tomorrow you're an ape."The alarm goes off at five A.M. and by ten after, Otis Pembroke has the coffee plugged in and is standing in front of his bathroom mirror, shaving. The call is for seven o'clock on location at Hollywood Park, the race track that under normal conditions is a half-hour drive from Otis' little cracker-box house in West Hollywood. Otis, however, always allows himself enough time, and so, in 29 year...

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