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Like the other Clark victories, this one was scored in a Lotus, one of those creations of British Designer Colin Chapman that have made such proud marques as Ferrari and Maserati alsorans on the Grand Prix circuit. In place of the familiar old Coventry Climax engine (originally designed to power a fire-engine water pump), the Lotus 49 boasts a brand-new V-8 Ford-Cosworth engine that may well give Ford a Grand Prix championship to go with the victories it has already won at Indianapolis, Le Mans and on the stock-car circuit. Constructed mainly of aluminum, with...
...Zurich silk merchant, provided the partners with an initial $170,000 stake. But technology was B.B.C.'s real dowry. The firm built a pioneering standard-gauge electric locomotive in 1899, rolled a long way with the expansion of European railroads, and soon began turning out early designs in circuit breakers, turbines and other heavy gear. And while its labs now work on cryogenics, lasers and other new technologies, B.B.C. continues to improve the old ones. A recent B.B.C. breakthrough in rotor-blade design will permit its American Electric turbines to use low-pressure, nuclear-fired steam and turn...
...gave a dramatic demonstration of the resources available to an American President and his readiness to put them to use. On less than 24 hours' notice, he assembled an entourage of four jet planes and 300 people and spent the next five days in a dizzying, 26,959-mile circuit of the globe. The original reason for his cyclonic odyssey was to attend services for Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt. Characteristically, Johnson transformed it into a microcosm of his coming campaign...
...apply what she had learned to pop music. She set out for New York City with a suitcase full of demonstration records and a determination to do "the uphill thing." She did it for five years, making records that never quite distilled her true essence, plying the often seamy circuit of jazz and rhythm-and-blues clubs...
Down to Eight. Graffman's first major achievement came in 1949, when he won the Leventritt Award. It was an important step up, but it did not bring instant success. The next few years were spent doing the town-to-town Community Concert circuit. In 1964, he refused to play before a segregated audience in Jackson, Miss., and that temporarily knocked the props from under his career: the following season he was able to pull down a mere eight bookings. This season, Graffman's schedule calls for 100 appearances. "That's too many by 25," he says...