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Champion race car driver Michael Andretti won the race — covering 350 feet at a top speed of 17 miles per hour. The event helped to launch the parking garage at a new casino in Washington state.

Wonderful Wife was a top seller when more women stayed at home and took care of the kids. Now that more women stay on the job, the publisher replaced it with a magazine aimed at working mothers.

2: Comedian BRETT BUTLER had an abusive marriage before getting on stage with her comedy act. She is now the star of the sitcom "Grace Under Fire," one of the top rated shows of the season. Her character is a single mother with three kids, and, like BUTLER, is divorced from an abusive husband.

Author LORENZO CARCATERRA (Car-CA-terra). He is managing editor of the CBS weekly series "Top Cops." He's written a memoir, "A Safe Place," (Villard Books) about growing up the son of a violent, loving, murderous, and generous father. They lived in New York's Hell's Kitchen during the 50s and 60s. Lorenzo found out at the age of 14 that his father had murdered his first wife when she threatened to leave him. REBROADCAST. ORIGINALLY AIRED 1/

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including a Ukrainian student welcoming President Clinton to the country; resident Clinton speaking about post Cold-War relations; Red Cross spokesperson ary McAndrew and flood victim Alice Henderson on the flood waters in and around ew Orleans, Lousiana; Representative Rosa Delauro (D-CT) on Bush's decision to top supporting the NRA; U.S. Attorney Pat Ryan on the charges against Terry ichols; Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Pete Domenici (R-NM) on alancing the Federal budget; and Vice President Al Gore criticizing the epublican medicare proposal.

Apart from its better-known roles in bluegrass and Dixieland, the banjo was once a sought-after status symbol in late 19th-century America. Young ladies learned to play parlor music on the banjo; there were banjo societies and banjo virtuosi; and manufacturers fought wars over who could make the fanciest banjos. On top of that, this was primarily a northern phenomenon. It's chronicled in a new book, America's Instrument: The Banjo in the 19th Century, by Philip Gura and James Bollman. Paul Brown reports. (7:45) (America's Instrument: The Banjo in the 19th Century is published by University of North Carolina P

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including White House spokesman Joe Lockhart on the Middle East summit at Camp David; former South African President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the international AIDS conference; Texas governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore at the NAACP Convention in Baltimore; Judge Robert Kaye, who presided over the civil lawsuit in Miami against the top five tobacco companies; Phillip Morris attorney Dan Webb and smokers' attorney Stanley Rosenblatt on the $145 billion punitive damages verdict.

Jackie Kennedy Onnasis' estate has been drawing top dollars all week long at Sotheby's auction house. Noah Adams talks with Michael Marsden, dean of the College of Arts and Science at Northern Michigan University in Marquette who has written about popular culture, about this estate sale. Marsden says he's not surprised by the amount of money people have paid for Jackie O's belongings being auctioned. Rather, Marsden says, people attach a kind of profound value to memorabilia that can be very high. He says this dates back to the Middle Ages when people begin to collect the relics of saints.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that the Defense Department says it is starting to refocus its investigation of illnesses among Gulf War veterans as a result of recent revelations that some troops may have been exposed to chemical weapons during clean-up efforts after the war. The Pentagon's top doctor, Steven Joseph, says the realization is "a watershed" in trying to understand the mysterious ailments. The Pentagon now presumes some soldiers have been exposed to chemical weapons, though no illnesses have been clearly linked to the chemicals.

With the polls showing that Bob Dole is gaining little ground on President Clinton in this year's presidential race, GOP strategists are deciding how to save their congressional candidates from duplicating the top of the ticket's lack of success in appealing to voters. NPR's Phillip Davis talks with Republican state leaders about how they hope to get their voters to the polls to support the party's ideals as well as their congressional candidates. In Texas, for example, Republican strategists are running congressional campaigns that are independent of the presidential race, stressing the negative aspects of what it would be like to have both Congress and the White House controlled by Democrats; in Florida, campaign advisors are focusing on voter turnout rather than on the Dole-Kemp message.