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...Paris staffers, 300 provincial stringers and 100 part-time foreign correspondents. Among his staff are former athletic stars such as Marcel Hansenne, an assistant editor who finished third in the 800-meter run in the 1948 Olympics; and intellectuals such as Antoine Blondin, a novelist who won the Prix Interallié in 1959 and now writes a regular column of slangy, pun-filled and often sarcastic observations. Reporters must scrape along on salaries of $300 to $350 a month, and even top editors earn only $800 to $1,000; yet many of them quit higher-paying jobs on other papers...
...slowly to a sleek green-and-gold car sitting in the front row. Then, with a smirk at the astonished crowd, Jack Brabham dropped the cane, pulled off the whiskers, revved up the engine of his Brabham-Repco racer, and roared off to win the Dutch Grand Prix...
...little charade was Brabham's way of thumbing his nose at Dutch and British sportswriters who have taken to calling him the grand old man of auto racing. At 40, Australian Brabham is the oldest driver on the Grand Prix circuit. When he first arrived in 1955, determined to make a name for himself amid the sophisticates of European racing, Brabham had more lead in his foot than skill in his hands. Watching him hurtle recklessly around the track, his fellow drivers would not have given a plugged sixpence for his chances of success-or survival. "The marvelous thing...
...took four years, but Brabham began to show up front end first-at the finish line. He beat Stirling Moss for the world championship in 1959, won it again in 1960, and by the start of this year had won a total of seven Grand Prix races-more than any active driver except Scotland's own two-time world champion, Jimmy Clark (TIME cover, July...
Died. Giuseppe ("Nino") Farina, 59, Italian auto racer who in 1950 was the first driver to be named World Grand Prix champion, but is almost as well remembered for surviving countless accidents, including one grisly debacle in Argentina in 1953, when he swerved to avoid a wandering child only to cut down five people in the crowd; of injuries following the crash of his Ford-Cortina-Lotus while pleasure-driving in the French Alps near Chamb...