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...title might go to a Russian for the first time. Valery Borzov, from the little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern Arrow," Pietro Mennea, a native of Barletta on the heel of Italy's boot. Or perhaps stocky Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa of the Malagasy Republic. Borzov remains unbeaten, but at the trials for the U.S. team last month, two qualifiers exploded past his best time. Slim, goateed Eddie Hart and Reynaud...
...19th century linguist and imperialist advance man, was an entire garden of delights. Gerald Hanley, the novelist and screenwriter (The Blue Max), is no Burton, although at one point in this memoir he claims to have succeeded where Burton failed-in discovering the secret of Wabaio, a potent arrow poison...
...time. Ed and Bobby go ashore and are set upon by two mountaineers. Ed is tied to a tree, Bobby sodomized at gunpoint. They are only saved from further humiliation by the arrival of Lewis, who kills one of the mountain men with a bow and arrow while the other runs...
...Knight chain's Miami Herald, using color photos and an airy makeup, had the most effective presentation, mixing solid analytical pieces by Knight specialists with such fascinating fluff as the revelation that Walter Cronkite lines up his navel with an arrow on his desk in order to center himself for CBS cameras. Knight showed enterprise as well: Washington Correspondent Vera Glaser cracked a secret women's caucus with a concealed tape recorder, and her colleague Clark Hoyt had the first story on how anti-McGovern forces were conspiring to support local candidates in November instead of the national...
...countries round the world. As a result, airlines in the past several months have begun tying up with established black tour operators. Black newspapers, magazines and radio stations are being deluged with travel advertisements. A San Francisco tour operator, Bob Hayes, has written The Black American Travel Guide (Straight Arrow Books; $6.95), and 4,000 copies have been sold since it was published nine months ago. Conservative estimates are that black tourists this year will spend $800 million, and by next year $1 billion, at airline ticket counters, on trains and buses and in hotels and restaurants...