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...World Bank President Robert S. McNamara that a phone call awaited him in the wheelhouse. As the former Defense Secretary started up the ladder, a young man attacked him and tried to throw him overboard. At 56, McNamara is still a strenuous New Frontier-era skiing and mountain-climbing enthusiast; he easily beat off the younger man, whose agility appeared somewhat addled by wine. The unidentified attacker was then restrained by friends. Why the attack? Apparently McNamara has dismayed the Vineyard's community of nude swimmers by buying a beach where they like to congregate. McNamara has promised...
...continues to be a lot of hard work out on the practice field, sweltering through muggy Cambridge afternoons in the early season and performing exercises in self-affliction as the season drags into frigid November. Football is football, and there are no revolutionary changes in store for the gridiron enthusiast who intends to follow up at Harvard his no-doubt fantastic high school career...
Senator George McGovern's surprising primary triumphs have left the Democratic Party somewhat divided, so McGovern Enthusiast Warren Beatty staged "Together with McGovern," his fifth fund-raising extravaganza. At prices of $5 to $100, some 20,000 people flocked to New York's Madison Square Garden, to be ushered to their seats by such notables as Paul Newman, Shirley MacLaine and Julie Christie. But Beatty's piece de resistance was the reunion of three split-up groups of stars: Peter, Paul and Mary, sounding as unified as ever; Mike Nichols and Elaine May, delivering their own deadpan...
...dance; that way, if they were seen practicing capoeira, they could say that they were merely dancing. It was finally legalized in 1937, and in the past few years has gained broad popularity-as a folk art rather than as a self-defense tactic. "It has everything," says an enthusiast. "It is a beautiful dance, the music is contagious, it is spectacular exercise, it is airtight self-defense, and it is poetry...
...because I grew up with him, knowing him as a kid; he gives such credit to his audiences' imagination. I got high on it." Franco Zeffirelli obviously not only spotted York's acting ability, or his ugly good looks, but also detected in him a fellow addict, a lasting enthusiast for the genius of the Bard...