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...leadfooted daredevils who race on Europe's Grand Prix circuit, at Indianapolis' famed "Brickyard," and on dusty stock-car tracks across the U.S. have only two things in common: a fondness for money and a disdain for one another. Last week they got a chance to exploit both emotions. All three classes of drivers competed in the Daytona Continental, a three-hour endurance race for sports and grand touring cars, run over Florida...
Touted as a grudge race, the Daytona Continental lived up to its billing. Semi-Expatriate Phil Hill, the 1961 Grand Prix champion, angered his U.S. competitors by tooling around the tightly banked, 3.81-mile course in a 103.m.p.h. practice run and remarking, "It's nothing. A simple course." Belgium's Olivier Gendebien went even further: "To win here, you don't have to be the best driver-only crazier than the rest." Britain's Stirling Moss and the foreign contingent clucked at the pink powder puffs that Stock Car Driver Joe Weatherly wore on each...
...winner of the Prix de Rome at 21, Gussow learned in Europe "not how to paint, but how to love art. When I went over," he confides with some embarrassment, "I hadn't even heard of Botticelli." He stayed in Europe two years, devouring the museums, but it was not until he got back home that his own work seemed to take on meaning. Gussow found his inspiration in the countryside most familiar to him-the hills and valleys around Congers, N.Y., where he bought a house, and the sea around Maine's Monhegan Island, where he spends...
Pursuit of Perfection. Arturo Toscanini first proclaimed I Musici "Number One" when the orchestra was founded in Rome nine years ago, and I Musici has held on to the title ever since. Repeated winners of France's cherished Grand Prix du Disque, I Musici has made 34 records, sold a phenomenal 300,000 copies. Its best seller: Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In its pursuit of perfection, the group takes four full days to record a 4O-min. LP. The result is a luxurious, butter-smooth string tone, an artful blending of the orchestra's twelve instruments...
...Driving a Lotus, its brakes virtually useless for the last 15 laps, Britain's Stirling Moss averaged 91.3 m.p.h., fast enough to win the 203-mile Pacific Grand Prix at Monterey, Calif...