Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither SECAM nor PAL will be ready for any sort of full-scale operation until the fall of 1967. In fact, France's only going color setup is a closed-circuit link between the paddock and the betting windows at Longchamp race track. That made even more apropos the remark of French Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, who claimed that France, in the hope of Europe-wide agreement, had so far been holding back its color TV industry "like horses at the starting gate." Said Peyrefitte: "Now we're telling them...
...Milwaukee's Elmer W. Roller, 64, had it to do all over again, he might decide to be a baseball umpire instead of a circuit court judge. Umpires, at least, don't get their judgments reversed...
...little charade was Brabham's way of thumbing his nose at Dutch and British sportswriters who have taken to calling him the grand old man of auto racing. At 40, Australian Brabham is the oldest driver on the Grand Prix circuit. When he first arrived in 1955, determined to make a name for himself amid the sophisticates of European racing, Brabham had more lead in his foot than skill in his hands. Watching him hurtle recklessly around the track, his fellow drivers would not have given a plugged sixpence for his chances of success-or survival. "The marvelous thing...
They began to listen again in 1964, when he returned to Manhattan to perform three solo concerts. The critics were ecstatic. What followed was 14 new albums, several sizzling performances on the jazz-festival circuit, and two extended tours of Europe, where Fatha is one of the most popular of all popular musicians. Viewing himself as an "evangelizing musician," Hines says: "People have been walking by me for a long time. Now it's my turn to reach the young people and teach them the old ways, the right ways, the good-time ways...
Mama Richey, who travels the amateur circuit every year with Husband George, can be counted on to spur on her little darlings. "I guess we've never had a real vacation," she says. "Everywhere we go there is tennis, a tournament or something." On the tour, Nancy and Cliff spend all their spare time together, hew to strict training rules: up at 9 a.m., in bed by 11 p.m. Nancy has not had a date in eight months, and Cliff has abstained since January-but neither seems to miss the social swirl. "People tell us that tennis...