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GRAND PRIX. With the help of Cinerama, Metrocolor and Super Panavision, Director John Frankenheimer has captured most of the excitement-and all of the noise-of last year's nine-race Grand Prix competition for Formula One racing cars. Top billing goes to Yves Montand, James Garner, Eva Marie Saint and Franchise Hardy, but the true stars are the cars, performing in some of the most spectacular sequences ever filmed of metal in motion...
Designing a faster twelve-meter America's Cup yacht is a little like trying to improve on a perfect circle. The twelve-meter formula is so old and so restrictive that reports of "major breakthroughs" in design usually turn out to involve a new shape for the transom, say, or a mast that is stepped an inch fore or aft of usual. But Warwick Hood, the Down Under architect who designed Australia's new America's Cup challenger Dame Pattie, insists that he actually has hit on something new. And maybe...
...than 100 companies, he surrounds himself with young engineers, not bankers. "You can't invest in modern industry without understanding the ticklish technical questions," he says, "and it's a lot easier to teach an engineer finance than to teach a financier engineering." So well does that formula work that Paribas profits ($5,000,000 last fiscal year) topped those of all other French banks, including the larger nationalized institutions...
Today's successful formula combines a feeling for the news with a concern for culture and tries, like a daily newsmagazine, to encompass all human activity. The show did not shake down overnight, though, as film clips from a nostalgic anniversary program last week made embarrassingly evident. For the first nine years, Dave Garroway was host, or rather referee. Engineers, visible from behind the anchor desks, used to wave to their wives; J. Fred Muggs, the rubber-pantsed chimp, ran amuck on daily cue; publicists seemed to own the show, particularly if they were pushing gimmicky toys or beauty...
Harvard considers its Predicted Rank List (PRL), which it uses as a factor in admissions, the "best single predictor yet devised of how well a man will do at Harvard." The PRL, which is derived from a secret formula of college board scores and high school rank in class, is also an excellent predictor of post-graduate performance. Of the 88 members of the class of '66 with PRL's between 2.0 and 2.4, 54 are in graduate schools of arts and sciences. Only 17 of the 153 graduates who entered Harvard with PRL's between...