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...With his blue-eyed British wife Toni, renamed after their marriage Muna al Hussein (Desired of Hussein), and blue-eyed, eleven-month-old Crown Prince Abdullah, he relishes domestic life in a modern, eight-room villa called Daret Alkair (House of Happiness) outside Amman. He loves speed, races his Aston Martin and Ferrari autos at 100 m.p.h., recently landed a Boeing 720 jet at Amman Airport. He Go-Karts so often with Muna that one diplomat became expert at the sport just to keep in touch with them...
With the killer at large. Birmingham quickly became "Terror City" to London's flashy press. The Aston Villa soccer team canceled an out-of-town match because the wives of the members would not be left alone. Nurses on the night shift in all local hospitals were escorted to and from work in special buses, and movie usherettes ganged together rather than walk home alone. But the brutality of the murder was not the only thing that shocked Britain last week. The other was the strange behavior of the passengers...
...Aston Martin's DB4-GT, a new two-seat sports-racing car. The torpedo-back coupe is powered by a six-cylinder, 302-h.p. engine, can hit a top of 170 m.p.h. U.S. price...
...Survive. The race turned out to be one of the safest in history, with no fatalities. But cars died like flies. Moss got his Aston out front in the early going, but dropped out with engine trouble at the five-hour mark. Before the race was half over, all the Jaguars were out. Two factory Ferraris were knocked out by mechanical trouble, but the third, piloted alternately by Defending Champions Phil Hill of Santa Monica, Calif, and Belgium's Olivier Gendebien, roared on through the night, built a three-lap lead over two pursuing Astons...
...with less than four hours to go, the Hill-Gendebien car developed engine trou ble. After that, it was no contest. Plugging steadily onward, two factory Astons finished one-two for the first Aston Martin victory in Le Mans history. The new champions: Carroll Shelby of Dallas, and Britain's Roy Salvadori. Only 13 of the original 54 starters finished-smallest number ever to complete the rugged vingt-quatre heures...