Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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She describes her new way of life as "halfway between a nun and an athlete." On concert days she goes into total seclusion ("like Stalin lying in state"), and when the awaited hour comes near she does laps backstage to warm up. "I'm not a half child any...
The clincher came last week in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, where Germany's daring Count Wolfgang von Trips flipped off the road last year, killing himself and 15 spectators. No accidents marred this year's race. Blasting his dark-green B.R.M. (for British Racing Motors) into...
Girls on the Back. Hill did not even have an auto driver's license until ten years ago. He was content with a motorbike. "The only reason I learned to drive was that a car is more sociable," he says. "Girls were getting fed up with sitting on the...
Three Laps Underwater. Daughter of Los Angeles Ear Surgeon Howard Payne House, towheaded Carolyn is almost blind in her left eye (a congenital defect) and wears a contact lens in her right eye. But her eye trouble has never hampered her swimming-or kept her from taking a crack at...
Sharing the Glory. In peak form for last week's A.A.U. championships, Carolyn had to share her glory with another Los Angeles teenager: her best friend, 16-year-old Sharon Finneran, who broke the listed world records in the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 31.2 sec.) and the 400...