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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan arrives on TV with an international cast headed by French Canadian Actress Genevieve Bujold as Joan of Arc, supported by Theodore Bikel, Maurice Evans, Roddy McDowall, Raymond Massey, Leo Genn and James Donald...
...self-defeating. The decision of 120 Negro students, among them some 65 athletes, to boycott the 1968 Olympic Games is a case in point. They considered their act a sign of protest against the denial of Negro rights in general. However, some Negroes among the many who have won fame and fortune in U.S. athletics thought that the youngsters had picked the wrong field. Said Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics: "There is no place in the athletics world for politics...
...capitalized with more flair on the current vogue for exposure; but even his critics grant that Rudi's topless was only an incident in his rapid rise to leadership as the most way-out, far-ahead designer in the U.S. When he was inducted into Fashion's Hall of Fame this fall the sixth U.S. designer to be so honored he was hailed by the selection committee as "one of the fabulous originals," the designer who has been so consistently a front runner that "like World War II's Kilroy, wherever one looks in fashion, it seems 'Gernreich was here...
...Bersin, star guard of the Harvard varsity football team, has been chosen as one of 13 outstanding scholar-athletes by the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame...
Bersin and the 12 other honored athletes will receive their awards at the tenth annual Hall of Fame Dinner in New York on December...