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Niederhoffer has a bye in the first round and will play his first match at 2 p.m. against either George Kilbora (Williams) or Roger Alcaly (Amherst). Niederhoffer has to get past Zug in order to make the semi-finals...
Touted as a grudge race, the Daytona Continental lived up to its billing. Semi-Expatriate Phil Hill, the 1961 Grand Prix champion, angered his U.S. competitors by tooling around the tightly banked, 3.81-mile course in a 103.m.p.h. practice run and remarking, "It's nothing. A simple course." Belgium's Olivier Gendebien went even further: "To win here, you don't have to be the best driver-only crazier than the rest." Britain's Stirling Moss and the foreign contingent clucked at the pink powder puffs that Stock Car Driver Joe Weatherly wore on each...
...measured by occupations on a scale devised by Anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner of Michigan State University. The categories are: families of professional people and owners of large businesses, semi-professionals and lesser officials, clerks and kindred white-collar people, skilled workers, semiskilled workers, unskilled workers, odd-job workers. For their survey, Drs. Salber and MacMahon lumped the bottom three groups together...
...Stern once described: "Standing on the stage alone with only a piece of wood with some strings and horsehair between you and the audience, you have to have the belief that 'I have something to give you.' " The matchless possessor of that belief has been enjoying a semi-vacation from his public for the past six years, spending most of his time in his Beverly Hills home and engaging in occasional chamber-music sessions with his friends Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violinist William Primrose. Next week he will begin teaching master classes (no more than four students...
...bulldozers and carpenters' hammers, a citizens' committee sounded a note of alarm and warning. In the heedless rush to keep up with the demand for more and more, warned the committee, the builders are transforming California into a mass of "slurbs-sloppy, sleazy, slovenly, slipshod semi-cities...