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...eyebrows, so many more from brows to nose, so many from nose to chin. In some areas, Buddha's features were made to resemble some perfect form in nature. His head had to be a perfect oval like the egg, his eyes were to be curved like lotus petals, his lips to have the fullness of the mango. As Buddhism spread, every new artist took his cue from such traditions, even to the extent of making exact copies of what had , gone before. But the creative spirit could not be bound: each civilization added something...
...qualifying trials! Jimmy Clark blazed around the 2½-mile Indy oval at 149.7 m.p.h., announced "I'll take it," and scooted back to Europe for some real racing. Trying to crack 150 m.p.h., Dan Gurney plowed into the Speedway wall and demolished his Lotus. Climbing out unhurt, he borrowed a spare and clocked 149 m.p.h. That was enough for Britain's race driver turned reporter, Stirling Moss: he picked the Lotuses to win, began taking bets around the pit area...
...home-town Riverside International Raceway, a course he knows blindfolded. Last March, he won a $13,250 stock car race, but his Chevrolet was disqualified for being "gutted" to reduce its weight. Last October, Gurney was leading the Riverside Grand Prix when a 10? part broke on his Lotus, costing him victory and $12,000 in prize money...
...mile race by 1 min. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, who needed a victory in South Africa to beat Hill for the title, almost got it: with the race three-quarters over, he led by 25 sec.-only to be forced to the pits when his grass green Lotus sprang an oil leak. Hill's victory (four firsts, two seconds, one fourth in nine races) marked the first time that a British driver has won the world championship behind the wheel of a British car-and Clark, winding up second in the final standings with his Lotus, made...
...international auto-racing fraternity, the handsome son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman, who won the 1957 Mexican driving championship at 15, burned up race tracks from Sebring to Le Mans with his lead-footed determination to "start first, stay first, end first"; after the crash of his Lotus racer in Mexico City...