Word: prix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars won the first race it had entered. Enzo Ferrari's speedsters have racked up more road and track victories than any other cars in the world. Last year Ferraris thundered first across the finish line in 93 races. This year they have won Grand Prix trophies from Buenos Aires to Sebring, Fla. Last fortnight for the first time, Ferraris captured the first five places in the trick)7, curve-filled Mille Miglia, which even for Italian drivers is the world's toughest open-road race...
...written tale of 17-year-old Cecile (a year younger than the authoress), who maneuvers her father's two mistresses to meet her own needs and causes the suicide of one, quickly became France's biggest bestseller (450,000 copies). Translated into 14 languages, it won the Prix des Critiques, touched off a sizzling French literary controversy and, in one U.S. paperback edition alone, sold an astonishing 1,000,000 copies in one month...
...tough field," said World Champion Racing Driver Juan Manuel Fangio. as he looked over his competition at Florida's "International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance." "But if my car holds...
...rapid Argentine was being remarkably casual with a big if. In all the Grand Prix circuit (including Le Mans. Italy's Mille Miglia and Britain's Grand Prix at Silverstone), no course is tougher on cars than the 5.2-mile tangle of flat-turn runways and taxiways at Sebring's abandoned airfield. Drivers have to hit the brakes and shift down at least 19 times for each lap (there is one tight hairpin without sign of bank and a wicked assortment of other unbanked turns). Clutches, gearboxes and brakes take a frightful beating...
Latin Brio. The neo-pagan life of love and love of life revealed to Carmela in these reveries make The Film of Memory a sensuous shelfmate to David Garnett's recently published Aspects of Love (TIME, Jan. 30). French Novelist Maurice Druon, a Prix Goncourt winner, applies Latin brio and an urbane Gallic prose style to his tale, and he can navigate the rapids of a zany stream of consciousness without drowning the reader...