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This picture of ritual life and death on an American fashion magazine brightens the pages of Ouhlier Palerme (To Forget Palermo), the novel that last week won France's celebrated Prix Goncourt. Though a colleague claims that the author "really saw this happen in New York," Edmonde Charles-Roux herself denies that Fair is a takeoff on Vogue, which employed her for 16 years. Curiously, the French lady was fired five months ago as editor of the French edition of Vogue, not for her macabre writing but, so she says, because she had argued that...
...sides. While sales of the bread-and-butter Chevy tumbled in October from 172,000 to 135,000, the breezier-looking Chevelle rose from 24,000 to 33,000. Sales of the regular Pontiac declined by 4,000, but the fancy Tempest increased 7,000, and the Grand Prix and GTO were also way up. The standard Ford slipped from 114,000 to 99,000, but Fairlane and Mustang both increased...
...title to his name (March 22, 1963). Eleven months later, he took the heavyweight championship from Sonny Listen, and has easily defended the crown six times since then. Or take Racing Driver Jim Clark. The week after the July 9, 1965 cover was written, Clark won his fourth Grand Prix of the season, ended up World Champion...
...Coventry Climax engine in Clark's Lotus was no match for the bigger three-liter engines that his competitors were using this year. He spent most of the year trying to beg, borrow or buy a competitive engine. But for last week's U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, N..Y, the next-to-last race of the J966 season, Jim had a three-liter of his own-a 16-cylinder, 400-h.p. BRM. Then, in practice just a day before the race, his new engine broke down...
...developed engine trouble on the 34th lap. Champion Brabham took over - but a cam follower on his Brabham-Repco snapped on the 55th lap. Gunning his Lotus into the lead; Jimmy Clark stayed there the rest of the way, averaging a record 114.94 m.p.h. to win the 20th Grand Prix of his career and the biggest winner's purse -$20,000 - in the history of Grand Prix racing...