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Perhaps the biggest flaw in the idea of boycotting the Olympics is the assumption that there are enough white people in this country who care about the Olympics to warrant the protest. Sports may be one of the few areas in America where blacks have status, but can amateur athletic status be transformed into political leverage? I doubt it. Perhaps if pro stars like Bill Russell or Willie Mays were to refuse to compete in their sports until some particular bit of civil rights progress had been made and their white teammates joined them, then there might be a burst...
...biggest gains at the polls were made by the Radical Liberals, who are considerably to the right of the Social Democrats. Their leader, Hilmar Baunsgaard, 48, was summoned at week's end to Christiansborg Palace by King Frederik IX to form a new government. Baunsgaard has displayed a pacifistic aversion to NATO, but he profited only slightly from the election-eve crash of a U.S. nuclear bomber in Danish-owned Greenland. He must form a coalition with other center parties, who undoubtedly will compel him to keep Denmark on its pro-Western course...
...biggest surprise was John Petkevich, an 18-year-old Montanan who was competing in his second Nationals as a senior skater. Still a little ragged in the school figures, he was in fourth place when he glided out for his free-skating routine. To the ringing trumpets of Spanish music, he went through five minutes of dazzling Salchows (jump and forward turn), Lutzes (jump and reverse turn) and flying splits. Then he went off with something he calls "the Bourkey"-an astonishing leap in which he kicks sideways, twirls, arches and floats as if suspended by wires. He decided against...
...have mastered the uncertain art of discount selling at a sizable profit. Its sales have soared from $66 million in 1958 to an estimated $555 million last year. With about 90% of its annual business coming from its discount operations, the company has become the nation's third biggest discounter, after S. S. Kresge and E. J. Korvette. And with estimated 1967 profits of $11 million, Interstate earned an impressive 16.9% on capital, compared with 11.3% for Kresge and 8.3% for Korvette...
What is a bestseller, anyway? The phrase is handy but hardly precise. Biggest-seller or most-seller would be more accurate, since the connotation of quality in "best" is frequently undeserved. And there is doubt even as to quantity. A novel that sells 5,000 copies in one week may edge onto the weekly lists (usually compiled from bookstore reports), rub titles with yearlong, million-copy works and fade into the remainder stores after a few weeks...