Word: manse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing intrigues a Frenchman like an affair of honor. Last week in the farming town of Le Mans, France, 250,000 spectators turned out to watch a duel to the death.
The weapons were in keeping with the times: automobiles. The battle ground was the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world's toughest, most famous auto race, the one the French themselves call "La Ronde Infernale." The combatants: Italy's canny old Enzo Ferrari, whose heraldic emblem, a...
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Out door Track and Field Championships at Randall's Island, N.Y.; the Grand Prix of Belgium in Spa; the final hours of the Le Mans 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). The Le Mans 24-hour endurance race for sports cars, one of the season's longest, and sometimes its grimmest grind. Live from France by satellite.
Despite all the correspondents who cover the combat, though, South Viet Nam's shooting war has become the particular province of the news photographers and TV cameramen. Says one wordman ungrudgingly: "A lot of guys take chances in covering this dirty, shifting war, but the camera boys take the...