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...meters with a time of 50.63 seconds, and junior Alex Obrecht finished fourth in the shot put with a 15.65-meter heave. Freshman Neville Irani took fifth in the hammer throw after a 48.89-meter throw; senior Matt Niemczak finished fifth in the javelin and seventh in the discus. Niemczak was joined in the points column in discus by freshman Jack Brady, who placed eighth with a 41.04-meter throw. The men’s results put the Crimson in fifth among nine teams, 51 points behind second-place Brown. In New Jersey, junior Brian Holmquest ran the third-fastest...
...DISCUS Enter Gliding, a graceful alternative to aerobics. With the balls of your feet on these 9-in. disks, you can squat, slide and even "ski" in style for a full-body workout...
...tackling a new threat to sportsmanship: comedians. The agency said it would sue the ImprovOlympic--a 24-year-old Chicago club that launched comics Mike Myers, Tina Fey and Andy Dick--if it doesn't change its name. "It is confusing," says Dick. "I wandered in there with my discus once." Rather than duke it out over the trademark of the word olympic, the club and its L.A. outpost will now be called I.O. The seven dirty words, luckily for the comics, are still public domain...
...film-industry conventions, taboos and the studio system with such films as The Moon Is Blue (1953), which treated seduction wittily and used then banned words like virgin; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which graphically depicted drug addiction; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph...
...entire schedule of the Peugeot-Talbot Games was rejiggered so that the confrontation could be seen live on American TV. For those who wondered how the Olympic race would have turned out, last Saturday's race seemed for its first half an eerie replay. Slaney (Decker married British Discus Thrower Richard Slaney on New Year's Day) took the lead from the start, as she likes to do. Budd, now 19, still barefoot and 10 lbs. heavier than in Los Angeles, remained close behind in second, often just a nerve-racking whisper away from Slaney's shoulder. But their feet...