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Brazil, home of Soccer Star Edson Arantes do Nascimento ("Pelé") and Champion Race Car Driver Emerson Fittipaldi, has a new game that combines the most violent aspects of both sports. Autobol, as it is called, is played roughly-very roughly-according to soccer rules except that the players drive stripped-down Renault Dauphines and bump the ball instead of kicking it. The result is a kind of motorized madness that seems perfectly in tune with a country that has one of the world's highest auto fatality rates...
...many Christians, the Van Greenaway Judas will not only seem bizarre but blasphemous: in the Judas gos pel, it is Judas, for instance, who utters (in a somewhat different context) the Eucharistic formula for the Last Sup per. Yet Van Greenaway's anticlericalism is usually witty, and only occasion ally foolish...
When it comes to outdoor sports, Brigitte Bardot can take soccer or leave it, and she has always chosen the latter. In Paris last week, however, a French all-star team met Brazil's flashy Santos team, starring Pelé, the game's greatest player. Brigitte was coaxed into sprinting across the field, clad patriotically in blue sweater, red boots and tight white hot pants, to kick off the first ball. Her inspirational toe power prevailed. The French booters held the powerful Brazilians to a scoreless...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia); Debussy: Pel leas et Melisande; 3 LPs (Columbia). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage world and all is light in Debussy's interplay between symbol and reality...
Good question. While some Europeans may have trouble identifying the monarch of Belgium, just about everyone recognizes Merckx, the reigning king of the road. One of the most popular athletes on the Continent, the handsome Belgian dominates bike racing the way Brazil's Pelé rules soccer. Fans hail him as the "Beethoven of the bike." Sportswriters call him "the synthesis of bulldozer and adding machine." France's own great racer, Jacques Anquetil, simply shrugs: "Unbelievable...