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Ferment & Passion. Nourishing this flower of public education is one of the richest cities in the U.S. Beverly Hills (pop. 32,000) has families getting along on $10,000 or so. But much of it is a lotus land of rich brokers, industrialists, movie producers, and more psychiatrists per psyche than anywhere else in the country. Going for it is an assessed real-estate valuation of $239 million and the smallest ratio of schoolchildren to population (about 1 to 7) in California. As a result, it has the lowest school-tax rate of any sizable school district in the state...
...Jimmy won 20 races and the Scottish Speed championship. Two years later, he signed a pro contract with Colin Chapman's Lotus factory team...
...took Designer Chapman until last year to work the bugs out of his Grand Prix Lotus, with its rear-mounted Coventry Climax engine...
...Obvious. That is a view few seem likely to get. The starter's flag had barely fluttered at last week's 273-mile Grand Prix of France before Clark's green-and-yellow Lotus shot into the lead. Roaring down Reims's long straightaway at 180 m.p.h., Clark set a new lap record of 131.147 m.p.h., and coasted across the finish line more than 1 min. ahead. The victory, Clark's third in 22 days, ran his season's point total to 27,* and gave him a virtual hammerlock on the 1963 Grand Prix...
...then Clark won the Belgian, British and U.S. Grand Prix, barely lost the world championship to Graham Hill when his Lotus sprang an oil leak in the season's final race. Bad luck still plagued Jimmy at the start of the 1963 season: his gearbox suddenly seized while he was leading the Grand Prix of Monaco. Then, on Memorial Day, Clark tried his hand at Indianapolis in a specially built Lotus-Ford, came in second in a controversial race many people think he should have won. He has not lost since. In the rain-drenchec Belgian Grand Prix...