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...Grand Prix auto-racing course where cars nip through curves and down straightaways at just 10 m.p.h...
...blond, became the second American in 16 years to win the U.S. title.* At 24, and playing the best tennis of his career, he has defeated most of the world's top players. In Tokyo in December, he knocked off both Laver and Rosewall to win the Grand Prix Masters. Two months ago in London, he bested Newcombe to win the Queen's Club Open, then came within a few shots of beating him again two weeks later in a furious five-set finals match at Wimbledon. At the U.S. Open, while Players Clark Graebner and Dennis Ralston...
Director John Frankenheimer continues to be preoccupied with the dynamics of courage and risk. The Horsemen is a further examination (like Grand Prix and The Gypsy Moths before it) of men testing themselves against awesomely high standards of accomplishment. As in the previous films, Frankenheimer succeeds brilliantly at re-creating the visceral tensions of competition. It is only when he tries to analyze them that he gets into difficulty...
...years, NASA was little bothered by such problems. To fulfill President Kennedy's mandate to land men on the moon within the decade, it frequently made space sound like a celestial Grand Prix with one purpose above all others: to beat the Russians. NASA became bloated by success and aloof from normal budgetary restraints. Engineers and jet pilots ruled Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center and NASA became the symbol of an older, less troubled America. While there may have been some minority members toiling in the back rooms, the men out front-the astronauts-have been white, middle...
...racing; of injuries sustained when his Ferrari crashed during a European Inter-series race; in Nuremberg, West Germany. The sons of a Mexico City millionaire, Pedro and his brother Ricardo were regulars on the international racing circuit while still teenagers. Ricardo was killed while practicing for the Mexican Grand Prix in 1962, but Pedro went on to win at Le Mans in 1968 and capture first place at Daytona Beach, Fla. for the past two years...