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...Taylor won the match, of course, but he lost much of his meanness. If he gets it back before Munich, he might trouble the only wrestler ever to have whipped him: 280-lb. World Champion Alexander Medved of Russia. Another Soviet giant is 330-lb. Weight Lifter Vasily Ivanovich Alexeyev. Agile enough to play volleyball, easygoing Alexeyev has set 54 world records in the super-heavyweight division since March 1970 and is clearly the class of his field...
Died. Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (real name: Alexeyev), 75, great Russian stage director; of heart disease; in Moscow. Co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and its director ever since, he revolted against classical conventions, emphasized realism, truth, emotional sincerity, charged his actors to "live the part every moment." He was equally proficient as actor, author (An Actor Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter...