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...Sunday, Oct. 22, 1972 in Wells, Vt. The Cyclethon is a mid-length bicycle race and all day rally with live entertainment. First prize is $1000. There are cash prizes totaling an additional $1000 for second through 39th place and also a $100 special effort prize for coming in 75th. The entry fee is $5 and should be sent as soon as possible for there is a limited entry. Mail to: Cyclethon, Wells, Vt. Additional information will be sent to entrants upon receipt of the entry...
...fact that the Pontiff chose to attend the congress-an ecclesiastical spectacular that celebrates the pre-Vatican II emphasis on the Eucharist as triumphal sacrifice-seemed to symbolize Paul's growing conservatism as he approaches his 75th birthday, next Tuesday. As if to underline his cautionary mood, the Pope last week decried a potpourri of moral pollutants-including contraception, abortion, adultery and divorce-that have made modern man "vulgar, vicious and sad." "We are walking in mud," he declared. He also linked sexual permissiveness with drug addiction. "Behind the initiation to sensual pleasure, there loom narcotics...
...75th birthday, in 1969, Germany's Grain Tycoon Alfred C. Toepfer created a "European Award for Statesmanship," to be presented to the statesman who did most for the cause of European unity. After years of search, the selection committee picked their first prizewinner: Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, "for his outstanding services to the entry of Britain to the European Community, to European unification, and the standing of Europe in the world...
...Gods, for example, the forces of the good, the beautiful, under-30s, battle the forces of evil, the ugly militarists of Apokolips, in weird sequences that look and read like nightmares. Whatever they are doing, American comics, both the books and the strips, are full of life. In their 75th year, they are bursting-WUMP, BOMP, OOF! and ZAP!-from the page in a dozen new directions...
...swept third through sixth places, and Koerner placed tenth, assuring himself of a berth on the All-Ivy squad. But the next Harvard men were far back--Quirk (23rd), Fred Linsk (35th), Marshall Jones (37th), Jerry Hines (40th), Tom New (41st), Rojas (55th), Nat Guild (66th) and Abe Jones (75th...