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Racing supremacy became a matter of national pride. First the French, then the Italians dominated the Grand Prix circuit. In the late '30s, the megalomania of Hitler gave the world the most awesome racing cars it has ever known: the Mercedes and Auto Unions. They were great, growling 600...
Relays of Runners. The occasion was the 45th anniversary of the Partai Ko-nntnis Indonesia, Asia's oldest Commu nist Party and, with 3,000,000 members, its second largest.* The P.K.I.'s jingo jamboree brought relays of runners bearing red and yellow flags into Djakarta from points...
Her British advisers might have recommended a bit more warmth of approach that afternoon, as her closed Mercedes whisked the Queen from her official residence, the Petersberg Hotel on the heights of the Siebengebirge, across the Rhine to Bonn. Clearly, the Germans were hoping for more than the genteel reserve...
Prosperity and its ties with the West have changed some of Alt Wien's customs. There are only half as many coffeehouses now (660) as there were in prewar Vienna. Many of the most famous along the Ringstrasse have been replaced by auto showrooms, from which a steady stream...
Coach Johnny Wooden's U.C.L.A. Bruins have already won the N.C.A.A. championship two years running. Last month the Bruins flew Lew out to Los Angeles for a weekend, put him up in a two-room suite, drove him around town in a red Mercedes, fed him hamburgers, took him...