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...Britannia rules again. In the 1964 Olympics, Britain's Antony J. D. Nash, 28, a frustrated sports-car racer (his dad said no to a Maserati, yes to a bobsled), shocked everybody by beating Monti for the two-man gold medal. Monti thereupon decided to retire, and last week Tony Nash was back at St. Moritz with his brakeman, Robin Dixon, to defend his title of best bobsledder in the world...
Loosely shaped like a musical sans songs, and almost sans plot, the film plunges headlong into the life and loves of Angela (Anna Karina), a Parisian stripteaser who shares her room at the top with a bicycle racer (Jean-Claude Brialy). Their relationship has obviously been built on the flimsiest of foundations-too many Hollywood double features. One day Angela announces: "I think I'm alive." Suddenly she wants to have a baby, but the bicycle rider does not share her idée fixe...
This was the event that put an end to the races in 1949-after famed Racer Bill Odom piled into a Cleveland apartment house, killing himself and two other people. Practicing at Reno last week, Miro Slovak, a Czech who fled West in 1952 and now flies for Continental Airlines, screamed down the straightaway at 400 m.p.h.-square into a badly marked 13,000-volt power line. Sparks showered over Slovak's Bearcat; one wing was gouged, but miraculously Slovak kept control. With extraordinary efficiency, the power company restrung the wire overnight. Next day-boing!-another pilot knocked...
Died. Edward Glenn ("Fireball") Roberts, 33, champion U.S. stock car racer, a fierce and flashing veteran of the high-banked ovals who, in 15 years of driving everything from midgets to 410-h.p. Fords, won close to $400,000 and all the big races except the World 600 in Charlotte, N.C., which he tried for again on May 24 only to wind up in the middle of a flaming, three-car crash that left him with third-degree burns over 45% of his body; of complications resulting from his burns; at Charlotte Memorial Hospital...
Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28, is everything a world champion auto racer ought to be: bright, cool, daring, earnest, fearless-and lucky as a field full of four-leaf clovers. Last week he won the 280-mile Belgian Grand Prix to make it two out of three races so far this year. And he didn't even realize what he was doing...