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Artificial Ocean. The keeper of a saltwater aquarium is to an ordinary tropical-fish fancier what a Ferrari man is to a Chevy driver. Marine specimens are hard to get, harder to keep, expensive to feed, and demanding of space, time and attention. But they are the most strangely marked and wonderfully colorful creatures on earth-so brilliant that they seem to glow with their own light, making fresh-water tropicals look drab. This is one reason why there are some 250,000 private marine aquariums in the U.S. today, ranging in size from 21 gallons to 50 gallons, while...
Married. Mamie Spears Reynolds, 20, daughter of North Carolina's late Senator Robert Reynolds, who at four inherited $10 million from her grandmother Evalyn Walsh McLean;* and Luigi Chinetti Jr., 20, partner with his father, a onetime auto racer, in the U.S. Ferrari franchise; in Manhattan...
...piece titled "Gloria Guinness on Elegance." What's elegance all about? Well, her list of examples, reading like half a dozen extra choruses of Cole Porter's You're the Top, offers the palm to such persons and things as the philosophy of Plato, the Ferrari automobile, Tolstoy, the Place Vendôme in Paris, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, the skyscraper, the model T Ford, and Gary Cooper. Noticeably absent was Mrs. Guinness herself-who is about as elegant as they come...
...call it La Ronde Infernale ("The Hell Circuit"). Pro drivers hate it: the 8.3-mile course is monotonous, and amateurs are allowed to compete, a fact that makes the coolest pro perspire with fright. The only man who really enjoys Le Mans is Italy's crusty old Enzo Ferrari, whose cars have won the race five times in the past six years...
...find a car rolling over and over directly in front of him; swerving off the road to avoid a crash, Hill damaged his gearbox beyond repair. When the checkered flag finally fluttered, only 13 cars, out of 49 starters, were still running. And the winner was a rear-engined Ferrari, driven by Italy's Ludovico Scarfiotti and Lorenzo Bandini, who covered 2,832 miles at an average speed of 117.9 m.p.h. The next five cars were all Ferraris...