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...clincher came last week in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, where Germany's daring Count Wolfgang von Trips flipped off the road last year, killing himself and 15 spectators. No accidents marred this year's race. Blasting his dark-green B.R.M. (for British Racing Motors) into the lead on the very first lap, Hill poured it on for 86 laps, hitting 180 m.p.h. on the straightaway, taking the corners with precision. At the finish, he was 30 seconds ahead of the No. 2 man, the U.S.'s Richie Ginther, in another B.R.M. Hill's average...
While Kennedy seemed to be weighing all the arguments, his mind was made up: the U.S. would almost certainly have to test in the air. The clincher came from old Testing Foe Hans Bethe, whose detailed study showred that the Soviet blasts had been badly underrated. That 58-megaton bomb, Bethe reported, actually was a 100-megaton giant tamped down by a casing of lead. The U.S.S.R. could hang this on its biggest operational missile and hurl the full 100 megatons across 3,500 miles to the U.S. The Russians had made great gains in putting a bigger punch into...
...Operating on the theory that one good deed deserves another, Yankee Slugger (61 home runs) Roger Maris showed up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to talk contract with General Manager Roy Hamey. His bags were already packed, should Hamey prove stubborn, but Maris was persuaded to stay. The clincher: a $32,000 raise (to $70,000)-or about $525 for each of his 1961 homers...
Both teams are undefeated. In Ivy competition, Yale has lost only two points (against Princeton), and Harvard three (also Princeton). Heavily favored last year. Yale was only able to eke out a shaky victory over the Crimson with Tony Lake taking West to five games in the clincher...
...concerned with the problem of record-wear and surface-noise. His care for records doesn't end with use of the world's lowest-pressure commercial cartridge. The familiar Dust Bug is very much present, as it is in just about everybody's system these days. But the real clincher is yet to come...