Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ken Miles, 47, British auto racer, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1952 to become one of the country's top test drivers and endurance racers, most notably with the 200 m.p.h. Ford Mark Us, in which he won this year's Daytona 24 Hour Continental and Sebring twelve-hour races and barely missed winning the 24 hours of Le Mans on a dead-heat technicality; of injuries suffered when a new grand touring Ford prototype that he was testing went out of control on a curve at 100 m.p.h.; in Riverside, Calif...
...scheme that we can't resist!" So saying, the management of the London Symphony canceled 20 recording sessions, five concerts, refused an invitation to the Athens Festival and, with the abandon of undergrads leaving for spring vacation, bundled the orchestra off to that big sandbox in the sun, Daytona Beach, Fla. They are the attraction at the first Florida International Music Festival, by far the most culturally ambitious festival in the Southeast...
...London Symphony is the first European orchestra to settle in a U.S. city for such an extended engagement. When they arrived two weeks ago-96 musicians, 43 wives and 36 children-they were met by a caravan of 40 cars and treated to a wee-hour spin across Daytona's famed beach. In the days since, it has been one continuous round of sun and surf-and great music...
...disappointing low of 800, owing partly to the stiff price of tickets (from $3.50 to $10). But no one was discouraged. The festival, financed with $170,000 raised by the community, was conceived as a "cultural counterattack" on the "sex, suds and sand reputation" of Daytona, and such things take time. Says Festival Director Tippen Davidson: "Something was needed to round out our tourist image-not just naked girls being bounced on a beach blanket...
...survives, the London Symphony could become a permanent summer fixture in Daytona. Says General Secretary Ernest Fleischmann: "It's ridiculous that we had to come to Daytona Beach to do this. It should have happened in England long ago-to teach, play, to benefit the community. This is where we should be eleven months of the year...