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...adventures in his epic poem The Odyssey. Now Photographer Erich Lessing has trained his camera on the very scenes that may have met the voyagers' astonished eyes: the shores of Djerba, off the Tunisian Coast, where Odysseus-here given his Roman name of Ulysses-tarried among the Lotus Eaters; the brooding Lake Avernus in Italy, where he descended into the Underworld; the bay of Port Vathy, where at last the voyage ended on the sands of home. Lessing has overburdened his superb pictures with too much borrowed text. The Homeric passages that embellish the pictures would have sufficed...
Embalmed Stage Sets. For the newer California artists the words object, assemblage and crazy seem quite fitting. According to Los Angeles County Museum Curator of Modern Art Maurice Tuchman, their emphasis on detail, however offbeat, is "a profound reaction against California as a land of lotus eaters, neon lighting and drugstore starlets." Their attainment of maturity is not at all guaranteed, but they have made craftsmanship, if not neatness of execution, a competitive goal. "They are always looking over each other's welding seams," says Hopps. "They will applaud a Paul Harris (see opposite) but criticize his stitches...
When the starter's flag whished down last week, Clark roared off in his dark green Lotus, leaving the other 18 cars in exhaust fumes. Driving with superb skill, he powerslid through some curves, on others clipped the inside edge of the track, raising small puffs of dust. At the end of the first lap, he was already 135 yds. in front, and there he stayed. He set a new lap record on the first go-around (98.7 m.p.h.), then successively improved it on the next two laps (100.4 m.p.h.), broke it again on the tenth (101.1 m.p.h.). Sensing...
...automobile on a cold winter morning knows how unpredictably exciting the internal combustion engine can be. After last week's British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Jim Clark (TIME, cover, July 9) has had just about all the excitement he can stand. There he was in his little green Lotus, leading Graham Hill by a comfortable 35 sec., with the race four-fifths over. Coming out of a bend, Clark stepped on the accelerator. Gasp. Cough...
...bloodiest in years, with two drivers dead, five injured in a fiery crash on the second lap. Clark missed that by being ahead of the pack. But speed did him no good when the tread peeled off a tire at 150 m.p.h. and the left rear wheel of his Lotus collapsed. Old Indy hands had to admire the way the "sporty-car" driver from Scotland held his bucking car steady and braked it to a stop on the infield grass ("Of course," added Rodger Ward, "if he didn't, his tail would've been a grape"). The same...