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...team something of a family affair. The sisters' chances were quickly halved, however, when Marilyn, 22, snagged a gate in her first run and tumbled out of the race. Then, out of the snow flurries came Barbara, 21. Cutting corners dangerously close, she whizzed home with the fastest time in the first of the two heats. Refusing to look at her competitors lest their difficulties make her "too cautious," she again went all out to register a total time that was just .02 sec. better than Runner-Up Danielle Debernard of France. It was the first gold medal...
After seven years of austerity, economic innovations and political repression, Brazil claims one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America. Its gross national product last year advanced more than 11 % (to a still modest $40 billion). A wave of consumer spending has given fresh fuel to the world's eighth largest car industry, which last year increased production by 20%, to 500,000 units. Sales of consumer durables-TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances -went up by almost one quarter in 1971. While Chile under its Leftist President Salvador Allende is nearly bankrupt, Brazil has prospered...
...France, the world's longest, largest, fastest ocean liner, is in the Pacific this week, a month into a 91-day round-the-world cruise that includes calls at 27 ports. Aboard are some 1,150 passengers, mostly American or French. Occupying cabins or suites that cost from a minimum of $5,640 to $99,340, they have paid the French Line a total of over $11 million for the cruise, thus setting a new maritime record of sorts. TIME Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell was on board the France as it sailed between New York and Trinidad. Here...
After a Princeton win in the medley relay the records began to fall in the 1000 yd, free. Freshman Dick Baughman, pacing himself beautifully, upset Princeton's Curt Haydon edging him out with a spectacular winning time of 9:49.2, a new schools and pool record and the fourth fastest time in the nation this year...
Clayton came back in the 2 mile relay. Running as anchor man, he was clocked at 1:52.2, "the fastest half-mile time this year," according to Hunt...