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Like the other Clark victories, this one was scored in a Lotus, one of those creations of British Designer Colin Chapman that have made such proud marques as Ferrari and Maserati alsorans on the Grand Prix circuit. In place of the familiar old Coventry Climax engine (originally designed to power a fire-engine water pump), the Lotus 49 boasts a brand-new V-8 Ford-Cosworth engine that may well give Ford a Grand Prix championship to go with the victories it has already won at Indianapolis, Le Mans and on the stock-car circuit. Constructed mainly of aluminum, with...
Around town, Sellers earns the sudden sobriquet of "Bobo"-Spanish for fool. After all, has not Eklund newly milked one victim for a luxurious pad and bilked another out of a Maserati...
...World War I fighter pilot and a mother who had been a wing walker in a flying circus, Schirra took to the air naturally. An Annapolis graduate who flew 90 combat missions in Korea, he is a fast mover on the earth, too, in a maroon Maserati...
Hill climbing hit the big time in 1957, when a Maserati took the title. The next year, Germany's famed Wolfgang von Trips (who died in a Ferrari in the 1961 Italian Grand Prix) won the championship in a Porsche. A Ferrari took the prize in 1962, but in the past two years, the rear-engined, bug-low German Porsches dominated the races...
...background, she has propelled herself to the point where she is now the wife of a fashionable Roman architect and mother of a three-year-old boy ("An earthquake; he's so handsome"), can afford to collect shoes (70 pairs) and furs (14, including six mink), drive a Maserati and learn to fly. Best of all, having been discovered abroad, she finds herself big box office at home...