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...fortnight's vacation in Monte Carlo, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, divided his time between painting and gambling, sun and sightseeing. Mornings he sat before his canvas in a ninth-floor studio of the Hôtel de Paris with a superb view of the Riviera coast and the Monaco yacht basin. Afternoons, he drove up in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes. Nights, Sir Winston sat for hours at a roulette table in the Monte Carlo Casino, as oblivious of the gawping tourists as an old but uncaged lion. Walking painfully, but refusing any helping hand, Churchill invariably carried...
Brutal Beating. Hours later, he was in Monaco's Princess Grace hospital having the bone set by a French surgeon, Dr. Charles Chatelain, and his leg encased in a plaster cast. The doctor said that the operation "went very well," and hospital authorities said his constitution is "remarkable-quite Churchillian." A later report had it that the patient was "quite comfortable, but a bit crotchety." Churchill dined on cold chicken, then smoked a fat cigar with his habitual glass of brandy...
...sport that is obsessed with speed and dogged by death, the Grand Prix de Monaco is a cheerful interlude. Only once, in 1952, was a driver killed in the race, and even the most daring racers-piloting cars capable of 180 m.p.h.-can average only about 70 m.p.h. around the twisty, 1.95-mi. Monte Carlo circuit...
Over the Wall. But if it is relatively safe, Monaco is one of the world's most exciting auto races. The course plunges wildly through the 368-acre Mediterranean principality itself, swooping up the narrow streets from the harbor, past the Hotel de Paris and Cartier's, and zigzagging down again from the Casino gardens through a tunnel to the waterfront...
Last week more than 50,000 racing fans, including Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, were on hand to see the fun in the 20th Monaco Grand Prix. Everybody got his money's worth. No sooner had the 16 cars roared away from the start than there was a grand pileup. Barreling into the first 180° "Gas Works" hairpin, the U.S.'s Richie Ginther found the accelerator of his British-built B.R.M. stuck tightly to the floor. Helpless, Ginther plowed into the Lotus of France's Maurice Trintignant, slamming it sideways, directly into the path of three...