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...freshman meet was even less of a race, with the Yardlings topping Penn, 19-42, and making a perfect 15-50 score against Columbia. Briton Jim Baker took first place, his first win in a Crimson uniform...
Denholm Elliott, a thin-lipped Briton who looks like Eastcheap trying hard to be Eton, plays the engineer's assistant: a natural victim who doesn't really know he's alive unless he's being tortured...
...average 96.56 m.p.h. and break the record he set last year. Surtees played it cozy for the first few laps, letting the field sort itself out, then gunned his Ferrari into the lead for good and finished 76 sec. ahead of Fellow Briton Graham Hill. Bad luck dogged Scotland's Jim Clark, the reigning world champion, who failed to finish because of a burned valve. Point standings for the 1964 championship after six races: Hill 32, Clark 30, Surtees...
...Middle East. In Beirut, languid young Lebanese reclined amid cushions and asked him to explain their country to them because it was so "baffling." In Jordan, Knowles was lionized by King Hussein, and titillated by the prospect that he might lend a hand in writing the royal autobiography (a Briton got the job). Knowles pushed on to the Aegean islands. Everywhere, simple peasants were eager to welcome the camera-bearing tourist...
...European Grand Prix with a record average 94.14 m.p.h. over the twisting 80-lap, 212-mi. course at Brands Hatch, England. In his green factory Lotus, Clark spurted into the lead at the start, was never headed and took the checkered flag just 2.8 sec. ahead of fellow Briton Graham Hill in a thrilling dice that saw the two zipping around nose to tailpipe for most of the race. The win, Clark's third in five Grands Prix so far, gave last year's world champion a total 30 points in the 1964 championship, four more than Hill...