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...Hollywood people are very good at what they do; they know more about emotional strings than most talented shrinks-and Saturday they pulled them all. Not that it was easy. Not that an ocean of perspiration hadn't been shed in the weeks leading up to that explosive curtain raiser...
...significant power after twelve years without a gold medal. "The U.S. has the most diversified gene pool, the best facilities and the best coaching," says Women's Coach Brooks Johnson. "It was a myth that the athletes are better or that the coaching is better behind the Iron Curtain. We're now getting what they had all along-financial support. When credibility is established, that's the last piece of the puzzle to fall into place. By staying away, they're just accelerating that...
...still possible to offend anyone except the ghost of Avery Brundage and a few no-show Iron Curtain sports commissars by announcing the obvious, that the defunct Olympic ideal of amateurism has always been humbug? The prohibition against pros was not high-minded in its origin, it was high-hat: a snobbish social exclusion of riding instructors, fencing masters and the like who sweated for their keep and were considered high-level servants. It was intended to ensure that those who participated in this festival of running and jumping were the sons and daughters of gentlefolk. Other Olympic ideals...
History, so this is how it's made. One tends to think of history making in terms of treaties, crownings, facts, but it's the mind that makes the changes. Come November, a woman from Tulsa (Hartford, Butte) will hear the curtain of the voting booth shut behind her, and she will be alone with America and her own life. Another woman's name will be on the ballot before her. However she votes, her thoughts about her place in the world will not be the same again...
...best plays, Sheba is slight of plot but musky with atmosphere. An alcoholic chiropractor (Philip Bosco) and his slatternly wife (Shirley Knight) live in a dreary house in the Midwest, diverted from maudlin introspection only by their boarder, a sprightly college student (Mia Dillon). Doom seeps through every dusty curtain. Although the husband is supposedly recovered, it is apparent that he is looking for an excuse to take a drink. Although the college girl is beloved as a surrogate for the couple's baby daughter who died 20 years before, it is evident that she will, however inadvertently...