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Saturday, April 8 ABC's WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Highlights from Sebring's twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance for sportscars, plus the A.A.U. Men's Indoor Swimming Championships in Dallas...
...trick spectacles at the prizewinning display of Argentina's Julio Le Pare, 38, at the Venice Biennale last summer. In front of the eyeholes loomed shiny flaps of metal reflecting his own disbelief. Argentine military brass, puffed out with pride that their countryman had won the Grand Prix for painting, deflated with astonishment when they stood in front of one of Le Fare's "paintings"-a long sheet of shiny metal that captured their own images, then freakishly elongated them as they pressed the foot pedal that set the sheet in motion...
...that bobbing is necessarily for sissies. At last week's Swiss International Grand Prix at Crans-Montana, Austria's Willi Brenter, 24, outbobbed 113 competitors in the three-mile downhill run with a brisk average speed of 46 m.p.h. Brenter's brother Erich holds the world's speed record of 102 m.p.h., which is only 6 m.p.h. slower than Luigi de Marco's speed record on skis. "It is a calumny to say that only older people are interested in ski bobs," says Erich Brenter. "Ski bobs remove some of the danger of skiing...
Died. G. A. ("Tony") Vandervell, 68, British millionaire auto-parts manufacturer who dedicated his fortune to putting Britain's green racing colors into the lead on Formula I Grand Prix auto circuits, built his first Vanwall racing car in 1954, two years later won his first victory at the Silverstone International Trophy race with Stirling Moss at the wheel, and reached a peak in 1958 when his Vanwall beat the Italians and Germans in six out of ten Grand Prix races for the championship; of pneumonia; in London...
Attic Simplicity. Ingres sketched incessantly: friends, neighbors, nudes. His favored exemplars were the pure forms of Greek sculpture, together with Raphael. His extraordinary ability to capture likenesses won him a portrait commission from the Emperor and the government's Prix de Rome. Using the prize money, he moved to Rome in 1806, lived in Italy for most of the next 35 years...