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Skidding Lancia. The second day's docket called for two laps, from Oaxaca over lofty, roller-coaster roads to Puebla (252.9 miles), then a short (79.5 miles), nightmare stretch girdling a volcano at a height of nearly two miles and then plunging in murderous curves down to Mexico City. Again the Lancias led the pack, and Italy's "King of the Mountains," Piero Taruff, relishing his favorite sort of terrain, hung up lap records of 88 m.p.h. on the long leg, 102.8 m.p.h. on the treacherous short one. Late that night, in a hospital far back...
Even the jeers, however, were moderate and dignified, and Republican Riegelman, with a roller canary's fierce, hot instinct for the jugular, left town in the midst of the uproar to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over the problem of U.S. policy toward Israel-a matter with some bearing on New York City's Jewish vote. The New York Daily News poll, hastily rejiggered to compensate for Impy's absence from the languid battle, showed Wagner ahead, 2 t01, nine days before election. But if the whole campaign had been conceived to drive...
...center of Communist influence. Guatemala this year decided to stage a lavish international fair. Jorge Toriello, a high-powered businessman who backs the regime, was put in charge with $1,080,000 to spend. Promising the republic a gambling casino, horse races, Miami-style dog racing, Ferris wheels, a roller-coaster and a brand-new bullring, Toriello pitched right...
Last week, fed up with his own "Frankenstein monster," Ronald Searle confirmed the closing of his imaginary school. In his new book, Souls in Torment, his girls are still playing their old tricks-but they are doing so for the last time. They squash their last teacher under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will...
...flattie) escapes from an amusement park, says Producer Leonard Goldstein, "and winds up in a mirror maze . . . So you have about twelve gorillas popping out in 3-D from the mirror. We also hide him in a diving bell, and he submerges, and he gets on a roller coaster . . . That's the only thing 3-D is good...