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...Menon's flow of words but a single nyet uttered by Russia's taciturn Arkady Sobolev called a halt to the U.N.'s efforts to mediate in Kashmir. By casting the Soviet Union's 79th *veto in the Security Council, Sobolev effectively killed a resolution, jointly sponsored by the U.S., Cuba. Britain and Australia, to send Council President Gunnar Jarring of Sweden to Kashmir as a step "toward the settlement of the dispute." The resolution did not mention plebiscite, but noted in passing that former U.N. resolutions calling for demilitarization and a plebiscite in Kashmir...
...sometime pacifist who wrote some of France's finest war poetry, a good family man who grew into an aged satyr, a penny pincher who showered generosity on many. He was a shaker of culture and an object of curiosity and adulation rarely equaled. On his 79th birthday 600,000 Parisians paraded past his home. When he died, just 71 years ago this month, he was laid in state beneath the Arc de Triomphe, then escorted by 2,000,000 of his countrymen to his tomb in the Pantheon...
Less cheerful about his ordeal was freshman weightlifter Jim Doty, who lost 32 lbs. training for the race and seven more running it. Competing as James Rotz of Waltham, Doty finished 79th in 3:30 flat. He collapsed after the race, as did several others, including one 70-year-old veteran. The luckier competitors merely end up with blistered and bloody feet. I'll never run again," Doty said afterward...
...heart-stopping habit of running no faster than he has to sent Belair Stud's homebred bay colt Nashua home in the 79th running of the Preakness at Pimlico, Md., winner by a length over Saratoga...
...token 19-man truck team will represent the Crimson at the 79th annual IC4-A championships today and tomorrow in New York. Pean State and Manhattan are co-favorites to win the meet title. Coach Bill McCurdy has little hope that his team, in its last meet, will get more than a few points, competing against the best truck teams in the East. Forty-seven colleges are entered in the meet...