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...little Scot covered the 15 laps in a record 99.79 m.p.h., swept to the finish about one-half mile in front of Graham Hill's B.R.M. and Dan Gurney's Brabham. Gulping champagne from the winner's trophy, the normally unemotional Clark crowed: "I'm happy as a king! This was the one that was missing! I am the world champion...
Another way to bag a boodle is to have the good luck to own property where some big enterprise wishes to build. See MODERN LIVING, Monuments to Stubbornness. Our cover story is a monument not to money but to a canny Scot who makes a lot of it. For a spin with the hottest rod on the road, see SPORT, Hero with a Hot Shoe...
...breaking the sound barrier-on land. Arfons has his hero too-Jimmy Clark-and at the Indianapolis 500, he was right there, one of the first in the line of well-wishers waiting to greet Clark after his victory. "How do you like that!" said the puzzled Scot. "This chap goes 600 m.p.h. and he congratulates...
...surprise Moscow was that Stalin ignored "detailed" reports from Soviet intelligence; moreover, his security police "instead of fighting the real enemies of the state, were used for entirely different purposes"-meaning Stalin's personal reign of terror over his own citizens. Nor do Zhukov or Kuznetsov get off scot-free: Zhukov has not been cleared of what Khrushchev called his "Bonapartist" tendencies to put the army outside party control, nor has Kuznetsov been absolved of his temerity in opposing Khrushchev's emphasis on submarine over surface ships...
...rest of the battle took much the same course. It was fought on a site of the canny Scot's selection: a dry field bordered on two sides by sodden carseland. The front was so narrow that the English could not bring up archers or engines. It was the English cavalry against the Scottish schiltrom (shield ring), and for the first time in British history the schiltrom carried...