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...Grand Prix. The efforts of the radio and camera men have encouraged other Japanese industries to follow suit. Says Koji Kato, director of Alps Shoji toy company: "Past experience shows that flimsy, cheap toys are the best way to lose a market. We are now working to make toys more durable, safer, and at the same time more advanced than foreign makes." U.S. Toymaker Louis Marx is giving the industry a hand, recently went to Japan with a plan to reorganize the entire Japanese toy industry by supplying U.S. technicians, leasing machines, supplying designs and working out a "division...
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany...
...roaring, madcap world of Grand Prix auto racing, the power axis is shifting. For years, daring, lead-footed Italians bestrode the field until fiery death picked them off one by one, from Ascari to Musso. Spain's dashing Alfonso de Portago was killed in 1957, and Argentina's five-time world champion, aging (47) Juan Manuel Fangio, announced this summer that he is retiring. Today, dominance in racing belongs to the British, especially to flaxen-haired, temperamental Mike Hawthorn, 29, and balding, easygoing Stirling Moss, 28. The two are battling head-to-head for the world driving championship...
Broken Deadlock. Last week, as a field of 20 roared away from the starting line in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Hawthorn and Moss were deadlocked in the championship competition, with 23 points each, far ahead of all other drivers...
...Roaring into a curve in Rheims's Grand Prix de France, Italy's Luigi Musso was a mere 100 yds. behind Britain's Mike Hawthorn. Musso gunned his Ferrari, hit the curve at 140 m.p.h., catapulted off the triangular course into a wheatfield, died. He was the last of Italy's great three. Alberto Ascari was killed in 1955; Eugenio Castellotti, Musso's closest friend and rival...