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...Grand Prix racing, there is a tendency, sometimes justifiable, to credit victory to the car rather than the driver. Fittipaldi has proved that he can win even with autos that lack a racer's edge. Several days before the Monza race, a truck carrying his newest Lotus-Ford Formula 1 racer blew a tire and threw the car into a pepper patch and out of the race. Mechanics managed to patch up a leaking gas tank in Fittipaldi's back-up car scant minutes before the race began...
This is, of course, only a partial selection. Some of the most important graduates--the Kennedys, the Bundys, Elliott Richardson, Henry Kissinger--have been ignored. And Harvard is producing new famous people every day, like Harvard film directors of current note and varying talent, Michael Ritchie (Downhill Racer, The Candidate) and Paul Williams (Out of It, Dealing). So if none of the above can help or amuse you in your hour of need, simply find the year on graduation of your favorite alumnus, take a short walk from your dorm to the Archives, and find out where he lived from...
Died. Lance Reventlow, 36, auto racer and heir to the Woolworth five-and-ten fortune; in a plane crash; near Aspen, Colo. The son of Barbara Hutton and the second of her seven husbands, Reventlow devoted most of his time and much of his $25 million inheritance to his passion for racing. Though he mockingly described himself as "a playboy," his win in Nassau's 1958 Governor's Cup Race-in a car he both designed and drove-established Reventlow's reputation as a serious competitor. His love of auto racing and his refusal to give...
...Takes a Thief; aboard a rented boat off Paradise Cove, Calif. Billed as Hollywood's happiest lovers when they first married in 1957 (she was 19 and he 27), they were divorced four years later, each to try another spouse-she, Producer Richard (Downhill Racer) Gregson, and he, Actress-Starlet Marion Marshall. Both those marriages ended in divorce...
...bicycles. The true Francis classic (Dead Cert), pitted the jockey hero, up on a splendid horse named Admiral, against the forces of darkness who chivvied him about in a swarm of radio taxis. By contrast, Bonecrack's ride is modest. The trainer, galloping prodigally crosscountry on his best racer, tries to head off the sulky boy-jockey from inadvertent assassination by one of his Mafia father's goons...