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...years at Baylor University. Drama Professor Paul Baker turned the Texas Baptist school into a renowned center of experimental theater. The Waco wizard's 1953 Othello split the tortured Moor into three separate characters; later he got Actor Burgess Meredith to be anchor prince in a three-faceted Hamlet. To train graduate students, in 1959 he opened a stunning repertory theater in Dallas, the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In baffled admiration, the late Charles Laughton once called Baker "crude, irritating, arrogant, nuts and a genius...
Yale's Steve Clark and Mike Austin swept the 50-yard freestyle in 21.5 for another Eastern mark, and the Bulldog medley relay team touched out Princeton to win in 3:40.7. Austin won that race for the Yalies by making up a huge deficit with a 47.0 freestyle anchor...
Even more surprising was the Crimson victory in the two-mile relay. Captain Ed Hamlin had been sick during the week, and passed up the 1000-yd, run earlier in the day. Yet Hamlin made up several yards in his anchor leg to edge Army by a few inches...
...shot again. We didn't go in the wheelhouse or anything. We didn't want them to think we had guns or ammunition. They'd have sunk us right there. The second time the bullets went across the bow close to the anchor line. I wasn't watching too close. I don't know if they were Russian jets or not, but I knew they shouldn't be doing that. We weren't flying a flag. We didn't have...
...West and slightly north is the tidy, pastel-shaded Dutch island of Curaçao, which claims the world's second largest oil refinery. Here the tourists, most of them off cruise ships, bustle through town buying things, then are herded back on board to weigh anchor. Hotels and restaurateurs are hopefully expecting the cruise ships to begin two-and three-day layovers, at which time the food at at least one restaurant will veer from the ratatouille nicoise and péches cardinales to the plain meat and potatoes that are said to be what tourists want...