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Apart from the payola controversy, the big news of the week was the almost monotonous parade of Americans to the victory pedestal. There were elev en boxing weight classes in Mexico City, and U.S. boxers won medals in seven of them. In yachting. New Orleans' Buddy Friedrichs and San Diego's Lowell North won gold medals. In shooting, Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a 29-year-old Army lieutenant, scored 1,157 out of a possible 1,200 points to win the free-rifle competition and break his own world record. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Connecticut...
Last week Odinga got his comeup pance. In a series of finely tuned politi cal maneuvers, Kenyatta expelled elev en of his Iron Curtain friends, stage-managed a reorganization of the KANU party that abolished Odinga's job as deputy president and elected eight regional vice presidents in his place -all of them anti-Odinga. A small group of Odinga fanatics resigned to form their own opposition party, but it was a ges ture so hopeless that Odinga himself refused to join them...
...their advanced skills, the sci entists of Cygnus made two important errors. In the first place, the signal they received contained no message at all. It came straight from Indonesia, where the volcano Krakatoa had erupted elev en years before, generating meaningless radio waves with its churning plasma...
...that indicate the onset of CO2 giddiness. So they would have more time to do something about it. Aside from advantages in regard to the bends and CO2, Dr. Balke found that his volunteers, after conditioning, had a higher tolerance for oxygen shortage than at their San Antonio base (elev. 761 ft.). This meant that they could work efficiently at a consistently higher altitude. Furthermore, they could go still higher for emergency periods without ill effects...
...Barnwell, the C.O., "is grammar. We don't burden the student with masses of rules and exceptions. Our big ambition is to make a man speak and understand." The speaking begins right in the first class. "Are you a student?" a Danish instructor will demand. "Ja, jeg er elev" [Yes, I am a student], the class must learn to answer. "Is he a student?" asks the instructor. "Ja, han er ogsaa." A class may consist of only one student, is never larger than eight. The men average 30 hours in class and 15 at outside study a week...