Word: amon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Averaging only 105.703 m.p.h., New Zealand's Chris Amon took first place in his P4, followed by two other Ferraris and two hardy little German Porsches. The sole surviving Ford Co. entry finished seventh. Ferrari Manager Franco Lini dashed off to telephone the news to Maestro Enzo in Maranello. Reported Lini: "Ferrari is pleased...
...slowdown. Then Beebe got an inspiration. To make the inevitable Ford victory all the more impressive, he decided to stage a deliberate dead heat between the leading Mark Us-No. 1, driven by Miles and Denis Hulme, and No. 2, piloted by New Zealanders Bruce McClaren and Chris Amon. Headlights blazing, the two Fords coasted across the finish line side by side at 15 m.p.h...
...across the juniper-knobby hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an exhibition of 98 paintings that documents nearly 35 years of the artist's minute observations of the world he knows best (see color...
Down with Fraud. Last week, as a federal grand jury convened in Nashville, Publisher Amon Carter Evans could take the special pride of a son who has succeeded in filling his father's shoes. The jurymen will hear testimony on an election fraud-uncovered by the fighting Nashville Tennessean after the Democratic primary last month. In the city's seamy second ward, a political fief controlled by City Councilman Gene ("Little Evil") Jacobs, Tennessean newsmen turned up documented evidence that dozens of the ward's absentee ballots, which decided the outcome, had been turned over...
...fall to ruin when at this very moment Egypt is asking France to help save its temples on the Nile." Malraux having spoken, the Obelisk in the center of the Place de la Concorde (supposedly not cleaned since Ramses II had it inscribed in Luxor to the glory of Amon) is sporting a gantry of scaffolding, and the scrubdown has begun...