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This October, for the first time in twenty autumns, a hamlet in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York will be without of Formula One auto race. Watkins Glen, population 3000, has hosted the United States Grand Prix every year since 1961, but this summer the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Corporation could not come up with the prize money demanded by the International Federation of Auto Sport (known by the French acronym of FICA). "In 1970 the Formula One purse was $244,000. Last year we put up one million; this year they wanted 1.2 million," says Malcolm Currie...
Saturday, the first annual United States Grand Prix of Las Vegas will be run on a specially-constructed, 2.2-mile circuit that will be torn down immediately following the event. "The prize money is hard to ascertain because it is all handled through FICA," says Larry Aldenhoevel of Caeser's Palace, the Las Vegas hotel sponsoring the event. "but I do know that the man who wins is in for a lot of money...
According to the New York State Department of Tourism, the 18 to 20 racing weekends a year at the circuit just southwest of Watkins Glen are responsible for 23 million dollars of revenue annually. "Just how much of that comes in from the Grand Prix is impossible to say," Currie says, although he says it is by far the most lucrative event...
...funding won't erase the worst of Longwood's problems, however. The tournament will probably never rebound until its directors recognize the need for substantial professional help in running the affair. As professional tennis has turned big time, so has the organization of most stops along the Grand Prix circuit. Though the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has been nominally involved since 1975 with supervising Longwood, only in the last two years have ATP experts been on hand before the tourney, and only in an advisory capacity. The long-established clique that has traditionally monopolized tourney direction continues...
...much as they have onstage. They have turned out an overwhelming amount of material on the Philips label, including the complete trios of Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, and Dvorak. For their efforts, the Beaux Arts have won numerous recording prizes, including the Deutscher Schallplatterpreis, the Grand Prix du Disque, and Gramophone's Record of the Year. The latter was awarded in 1980 for their monumental 14-album set of the complete 43 Haydn piano trios, many of which were previously unavailable to the listening public. Gramophone called this work, eight years in the making, "a landmark...