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...Holding Together. Hardly. Auto racing, like one-design yachting, has to be judged in terms of classes. When unequal cars race together on the same track, the first cars in do not always run off with the highest honors. The winning Ferraris were all prototypes, sleek, custom-made machines unlike any other cars in the world. Their victory had been conceded before the starting flag went down. But the other Ferraris, regular Grand Touring class models, were all struck down by Shelby's production-line Cobras...
...communities dates back to the Middle Ages, when Spain and Germany were the main centers of Jewish culture. The Jews in Spain were known as the Sephardim (Spanish in Hebrew) and the German Jews were called the Ashkenazim (German in Hebrew). The differences between the two are mostly in custom and culture. For example, during Passover, the Ashkenazim are forbidden to eat rice and beans, while the Sephardim may eat both...
...price of steak is $1.22 a Ib. (for biftek, the lean cuts from the round, rump or tip), a cheap restaurant lunch runs to $1.50, and $4 lunches are common. The well-pressed Frenchman has to pay $70 to $100 for a suit (or $200 if it is custom made) and $2 to have it dry cleaned, about $8 for a shirt to go with it. Movies on the Champs-Elysees cost $2, and a three-room apartment in a new Parisian building $120 to $150 a month. In the past six years, prices of homes have risen as much...
...Adrienne's design ($25) dips waist-deep in both front and back; Formfit's Designer model ($9) is cut to accommodate the squared plunge; the Lady Marlene version ($11) drops only halfway, has vertical boning to shape a neat torso. Custom-made models sell for upwards of $35. For women of less ample means, Warner lines its demi-bra ($8) with contoured foam...
Ocean's 11 was a slightly amusing remake of Rififi that instituted a custom: every Clan picture carries a number in its title. Sergeants 3 was a feeble remake of Gunga Din. 4 for Texas, apparently intended as a jestern, or horselaugh opera, isn't really funny. It isn't really funny to see two overage destroyers (Martin and Sinatra) wallowing in floods of booze. It isn't really funny to see two top-heavy tootsies (Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress) involved in a tasteless chest contest. And it isn't really funny to hear...