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...posted speed limit of 30 m.p.h. Outside city limits, nature took over. A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe. Britain's Stirling Moss, essaying a backwoods comeback after the near-fatal accident that forced his retirement from the Grand Prix circuit three years ago, condescended to navigate for Brother-in-Law Erik Carlsson, and lost him cold-amid hot argument-somewhere west of Suez. Stirling's sister, Pat Moss Carlsson, was running second when she tried to overtake a truck in her Swedish Saab. The truck was disinclined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Crash Course in Zoology | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...Various of her songs at one time or another have popped to the top of the hit parade in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Rumania and Switzerland. At her home base, Paris, where the tousled blonde is possessively known as "La Petulante Petula," she has collected the Grand Prix du Disque (just like Edith Piaf and Yves Montand before her), and earlier this year got the Bravos du Music Hall, France's annual award to the female show-business success of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Everyone's Pet | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...Virginia farmer and the screenplay was about the late dictator of Iraq, Kassem"). He has just completed a TV script, A Time for Killing, with George C. Scott (Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, April 30), and is working on The Cruel Sport, a screen script about "the morality of Grand Prix racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Life of a Wordsmith | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Highlights of the Sebring Grand Prix of Endurance from Florida and the Holmenkollen International Ski Jumping Championships from Oslo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...Their Chevrolet engines put out 450 h.p. compared with 385 h.p. for the Fords and 350 for the Ferraris, but instead of manual gear boxes, they had-that's right-automatic transmissions. "Better acceleration," Hall insisted, and in a practice run for last week's twelve-hour Prix de 1'Endurance, he tooled around Sebring's 5.2-mile course in 2 min. 57.6 sec.-nine seconds better than the fastest Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: So There, Chaps | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

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