Word: 55th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautifully." His luck had turned again-and so had his competitors'. Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, the early pacesetter, was forced out when his Ferrari developed engine trouble on the 34th lap. Champion Brabham took over - but a cam follower on his Brabham-Repco snapped on the 55th lap. Gunning his Lotus into the lead; Jimmy Clark stayed there the rest of the way, averaging a record 114.94 m.p.h. to win the 20th Grand Prix of his career and the biggest winner's purse -$20,000 - in the history of Grand Prix racing...
...about the 55th time, Librettist Alan Jay Lerner settled back to watch On a Clear Day You Can See Forever at Manhattan's Mark Hellinger Theater. This time he brought along a fair lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, and afterward, as the cast applauded her backstage, Jackie smiled: "Oh, Alan, I haven't seen anything I loved that much in years." Lerner hadn't gotten that big a rave in the seven weeks since the show opened, so he took the lady over to El Morocco and bought her a glass of champagne...
Meeting in Washington for the 55th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, some 2,000 delegates could find real cause for satisfaction in the advance of the Negro revolution...
Rinse & Set. While Irene and her new husband were honeymooning in Italy, Juliana received the good wishes of her people on her 55th birthday. Wearing glasses and with a new hair rinse and set, she drove along the road in front of the palace in a Chevrolet convertible so that the crowds could get a better look. Later, on TV, she told the nation a little unconvincingly that her roles as Queen and mother had never clashed in the matter of Irene's wedding. She thanked her subjects for "the love you have shown our daughter Irene, whom...
MATT A-lolas, 15 East 55th. Chile-born, Paris-based Matta was a bright young acolyte in surrealism's heyday, but that label is too limiting for his talents. The variety of this excellent show proves that he is not to be confined by it. There are huge new spatial fireworks, exploding with the motion of the machine age, smaller works on the same theme, drawings and lithographs. But most interesting is a series of pastels that Matta calls Cabezas (portraits): four black, brutish simulations of heads that are magnificently ugly. Through...