Word: clermont
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...command rang out at 3 p.m., and for one long moment last week, all the klaxons of hell seemed concentrated at Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne Mountains of France. Electric starters whined. Engines coughed, belched smoke, bellowed and shrieked defiance at the wind. Yelling officials rushed wildly about, collaring reluctant mechanics and dragging them to the safety of the pits. The Tricolor flag fell. Gears crashed, tires squealed, and to a roar from 50,000 spectators, 17 Formula 1 racing cars hurtled off the starting grid for lap 1 of the French Grand Prix-oldest auto race in the world...
Gradually, as the howling machines disappeared into the hills, a hypnotic hush came over Clermont-Ferrand. In the pits, the loudest sound was the ticking of stop watches as mechanics and managers paced nervously to and fro. Even the public-address announcer stopped his chatter. The grandstand crowd sat in silence-eyes riveted on a spot 400 ft. below, where the winding asphalt track curled like a thin, black snake between two green hills. There, any second now, the leading car would appear. The noise came first: the rising nasal whine of a V-8 engine echoing off the hills...
...into the grandes écoles, the supra-universities whose graduates virtually run France. This week Lycée Louis-le-grand celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding by a once despised elite: the Jesuits, then mostly Spaniards, who in 1563 started their own school in the Bishop of Clermont's Paris mansion. Young and liberal, the Jesuits irked Sorbonne theologians with novel notions-for example, that the pains of purgatory might last only ten years. Yet by 1594, they had taught some 220,000 students, including the future St. Francis de Sales. The Jesuits welcomed anyone who could...
...cars bore signs that read, "Fill Your Flask and Come to the Second Annual Ocean City Riot." At Wildwood, N.J., where merrymaking teen-agers did $1,500 worth of damage to one hotel, police arrested 160 over the weekend, imposed $6,000 worth of fines for disorderly conduct. At Clermont, Ind., near the scene of the national drag-racing championship, liquor stores were closed on Sunday by state law, but 150 hot-rodders surged through the streets yelling "We want booze." More than 75 state police and sheriff's deputies were called up to control...
Born. To Henri, Count of Clermont, 27, pipe-smoking son of the Count of Paris, who is pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg: their second child, first son and third in line in a succession reaching back to 888, when Eudes became King of France; in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. Name: Francois Henri Louis Marie de France...