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...consciousness, talking dreamily in three languages about beautiful women and fast cars. "Connie, vous étes une belle fille. Vous étes très sympathique." His head rolled restlessly. "É molto difficile per un corridore-molto difficile It's very hard for a racer-very hard]." Suddenly he was lucid again, instantly transported to the scene of his own near-fatal crash in the Goodwood International Grand Prix fortnight ago. 'It's bad, this crash," he said. "One hundred and twenty miles an hour. It's very bad. It was going so beautifully...
Famous for his blazing starts, Robinson outdid himself last week. In his semifinal heat, he stomped so hard on the accelerator that his super-powered racer reared like a rodeo bronc into a disastrous "wheel stand," thus costing him a few precious fractions of a second that he was unable to make up. The new "Top Eliminator": California's Jim Nelson, 34, a mechanic who has been racing dragsters since 1948, has never before won a major competition. Nelson's winning time for the quarter-mile sprint was 8.7 sec., and his gold-and-red, Dodge-powered Dragmaster...
Jaguar's Type D racer has also spawned the sleek XKE sports car, of which auto buffs snapped up 2,200 in three days (roughly a full year's XKE production) after its introduction last April at the New York auto show. Its appeal: with a top speed of 150 m.p.h., it compares with Italy's hand-tooled Maseratis and Ferraris in both pace and grace (to use Jag's favorite ad words), yet at its U.S. price of about $6,000 costs only half as much. The Mark X at its basic British price...
...Basilio in The Barber of Seville could at best be ranked only as the fictional nymphet's half brother-the son of her creator, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov. But on his own merits, Harvard-educated Dmitri Nabokov, 27, a part-time mountain climber and amateur road racer, earned bravos from the discriminating Milanese gallery for his comic skill and the rich promise of his voice. Decided Father Nabokov judiciously as his Russian-born wife beamed approval: "I don't know yet whether Dmitri will ever be another Chaliapin, but I certainly think he has every chance of making...
Like Gagarin. Titov was a copybook example of the new Soviet man. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), ruggedly handsome with wavy blond hair, the cosmonaut had always been better at athletics than books, was an expert gymnast and bicycle racer before he elected to go to flying school and the Red air force rather than college. And like Gagarin, Titov was treated to a hero's welcome when he finally returned from his high-arcing trip. Khrushchev led Titov's pretty young wife Tamara to the Moscow airport to greet the newest Soviet spaceman and smother him with...