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...Jimmy won 20 races and the Scottish Speed championship. Two years later, he signed a pro contract with Colin Chapman's Lotus factory team...
...Crumpets. Yet the Offy never wants for challengers. Last week a new one showed up-as out of place at Indy as a diamond cutter in a coal mine. Great tea and crumpets, the English! Sitting in the Speedway pits, Colin Chapman's tiny green Lotuses looked like go-karts next to the burly Offies. They weighed only 1,130 Ibs. compared with nearly 1,400 Ibs. for the lightest Offy. Their power plants were Ford Fairlane V-8s-souped up to 376 h.p., but with carburetors, yet-and they got their nourishment from the good old Esso pump...
With the leaders so tightly bunched, a break could win the race, any mistake would surely lose it. On the 93rd lap, Gurney pulled into the Lotus pit for a routine tire change-and lost all chance of victory. A nervous mechanic misplaced his hammer; Colin Chapman finally found it and kicked it over to him. The delay cost Gurney an insurmountable 42.2 sec. Clark fared only slightly better: his one pit stop, on the 95th lap, took 32.3 sec.-and Jones shot back into the lead. Blocked by heavy traffic, Clark was unable to capitalize on Jones...
...DIARY OF GERARD SORME (256 pp.)-Colin Wilson-Dial...
...sells books," British Novelist-Critic John Wain came right out and announced the other day. He did not, however, examine the corollary proposition (which worried a more censorious generation) that books sell sex. In any case, The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme seems dedicated by Novelist Colin Wilson to the first of these notions. As to the second, the Diary will not sell sex, since the subject is presented at its worst-neither for play, passion nor procreation, but as a something-or-other that promotes the spiritual development of a prig. It is woeful stuff-the sort of Promethean...