Word: grand
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...GRAND PRIX. Formula One racing cars are the stars of this revved-up and spun-out (three hours) ode to autos. Sixteen camera teams shot 1,000,000 feet of film, much of it at last year's Grand Prix races, and Director John Frankenheimer has fashioned a heart-stopping movie slowed down only by the romantic detours of the drivers (James Garner, Yves Montand) and their camp followers (Eva Marie Saint, Francoise Hardy...
...coffin. France Soir captioned its picture: "The young lion of politics before the body of the old soldier." The newspaper also observed that the object of Kennedy's visit was "the White House-in 1972." That was all right with French voters. At a Picasso exhibit in the Grand Palais one young Frenchman said: "Picasso is completely outclassed. It is Bobby who is the hero of this exposition...
With the passing of Bowie's grand scheme for the Fellows program, the Center changed its complexion: growing academic functions have replaced earlier service ambitions. In both the Center and its semi-autonomous branch, the Development Advisory Service (DAS), there has been a proliferation of research projects and publications...
...annoys Jack Nicklaus mightily to think that anybody anywhere is still not convinced he is the best golfer the world has ever seen. So Nicklaus, 27, has decided to do a couple of things about it. First, he intends to complete a "grand slam" in 1967 by winning all four top tournaments-the Masters, P.G.A., U.S. and British Opens. He has won them all before, but not in one year. Next, he is out to regain the money-winning title he lost last year to Billy Casper: $121,945 to $111,419. Nicklaus insisted that the amount of money...
...merely because they cannot afford bail. All very well, since many federal criminal cases involve white-collar crimes and relatively responsible defendants. But the law has run onto a prickly shoal in Washington, D.C., where federal courts handle all kinds of violent big-city crimes. As a result, a grand jury has just returned the first bail-jumping indictment under the new no-bail setup. On the second day of his trial for robbery and assault, John L. Barringer, 23, saw things going against him. He then simply vanished. He was arrested two months later for another robbery, two more...