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...were herded into position on a three-tiered platform erected especially for group portraits with the Premier. Immediately in strode Chou, brisk and businesslike, and very trim in a plain gray tunic with matching gray trousers. A miniature Chairman Mao button pinned to his tunic gave the only dash of color to his outfit. The guests applauded the Premier, and Chou, still unsmiling, clapped in return. Floodlights snapped on and the official photographer cranked off three exposures. Then everybody trailed after the Premier as he entered the Great Hall of the People for the banquet...
Harvard moved into second place for the first time in the meet after its 6-10 finish in the 400 dash yard IM, but saw the lead change hands several times before regaining it for good. The Wolfpack, second after the first day, moved back into the runner-up spot momentarily after placing three men in the championship and consolation finals of the 200-yd. free style...
...easy on his hapless rivals. "Why, just yesterday," he crowed, "I rolled a 629 in a three-game practice series." Tennis's Rod Laver easily won the table-tennis finals, and Hayes used his long legs to run off with first-place honors in the 100-yd. dash with a tortoise-like clocking of 11.5 seconds. After the first day of competition, though, the leader was Auto Racer Peter Revson. Winner of both the swimming and tennis events, the millionaire sportsman candidly allowed that he was in it for the money...
...Snow, the boy-wonder producer in the musical Say, Darling. "I'm trying to acquire the rights to a new book that I think will make a great musical," went one of his lines. "It's an eyewitness account of Sir Edmund Hillary's dash to the South Pole...
...performance by Cornell's Jim Leonard. Mel Embree jumped 6 ft. 8 in. to take a strong second in the high jump while Pole-vaulter Jim Kleiger remained undefeated in the event with a winning jump of 16 ft. Baylee Reid surprised in the 60-yd. dash after reaching the finals through several photo-finish heats and semis, and took an eventual fifth. Dewey Hickman added a third in the high hurdles...