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...landed in the Mediterranean. This time he was badly cut around the head. Only four days later, though, he was back at the wheel, testing a car on the Monza track. He was a national hero; he seemed to feel Italy expected such perseverance. In a borrowed 3,000-liter Ferrari, Ciccio Ascari, 36, spun into a crash for the last time. He was dead before the ambulance reached the hospital...
...sliding through S-curve and hairpin, drivers lost no time making work for their mechs. And even the best of them ran into the kind of trouble no grease monkey can cure. Sweeping into a wide, unbanked turn, Texan Bob Said squinted over the hood of his three-liter Ferrari and saw danger. In the middle of the track, a tiny Renault had cartwheeled onto its back. Said drifted wide to miss it. Suddenly, he was bearing down on a stretcher where Renault Driver Jean Rédelé, badly shaken, was waiting to be carried off. Said drifted wider...
Before five hours had passed, PanAmerican Winner Umberto Maglioli and his bloodred, three-liter Ferrari were on the sidelines with a ruined clutch. Another Ferrari, its gas tank leaking, caught fire. Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa slipped off the track in his two-liter Ferrari, clipped a spectator's car, and promptly substituted caution for professional skill. On the way to the pits for repairs, he was rammed from behind and knocked out of the race...
...nation that ranks as No. 1 in both the manufacture and consumption of alcoholic beverages, that spends 10% of its national income on liquor, supports one bar for every 68 men, women and children, doles out half a liter of wine every day to its soldiers, the whole thing sounded like some wild practical joke. Diminutive, dynamic Premier Pierre Mendès-France had tilted his lance successfully at many a sturdy French windmill, but this-name of a dog, it was like asking a cat to give up milk...
...questioned Pierre's parents, learned that the boy drank a liter (1.0567 qts.) of wine each day, and at night often got port "because he was a little nervous." Alarmed by Pierre's case, Psychiatrist Serin alerted Paris' clinics, soon uncovered three more cases of child alcoholism...