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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The women's track and field program will include a 1,500-meter race for the first time. One contender is Vera Nikolic of Yugoslavia. During a semifinal heat of the 800 meters in 1968, Vera suddenly stopped and fled the track in tears, overcome by a broken romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics '72: Citius, Altius, Fortius | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

The one failure in the cast is Peter Thompson, who portrays Adolphus, professor of Greek and Barbara's fiance. Shaw fashioned the role as an affectionate parody of the great Classics scholar and translator Gilbert Murray. Thompson, surrounded by players with flawless British accents, comes out as thoroughly American. It...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Lovers Lag, Octavius Dazzles in 'Antony' | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

The cast is singularly strident. As a pompous Middle European intellectual, Kenneth Mars mugs and drools in a manner that Jerry Lewis might find excessive. Madeline Kahn, who plays O'Neal's officious fianceé, rolls over her part like one of Patton's tanks. Liam Dunn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popular Mechanics | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

Dewi Sukarno was dewy-eyed with chagrin at being "compelled to do a thing which is not at all elegant." That inelegant thing, said the Indonesian dictator's pretty widow, is to sue one top Tokyo newspaper, one news agency and two leading Japanese weeklies for "having created a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1972 | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

All My Sons is an excellent play of this type, although it is marred by an excessive reliance on melodrama. Joe Keller is proud of his material success, but unfortunately it is stained with blood. Shadily, he has been acquitted of manufacturing faculty aircraft parts during the war which caused...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: All My Sons | 11/20/1971 | See Source »

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