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...Sunday match was a three-division fling, with round-robin eliminations, and entries from all over the Northeast...
...Yale History Professor Staughton Lynd, 36, the most publicized of the Hanoi tourists, the delay was good for one last peace fling. When the BBC invited him to air his views on the war, New Leftist Lynd-to his own surprise -still had his passport, and flew off to London. There he denounced U.S. involvement in Viet Nam on a TV panel show, told a sparse peacenik rally in Trafalgar Square that American policy is "as ruthless to the truth as it is ruthless to human beings. I, for one, shall have nothing to do with that policy." Which, after...
India is the world's richest market for smugglers. One man who took a fling at reaping some of those riches sat last week in a maximum-security cell in Bombay's city prison. He is Daniel H. Walcott, 39, a broad-shouldered, persuasive Texan whose profile is known to readers of Interpol circulars the world over. Pilot and swashbuckler, he operates under at least four aliases and has been charged in half a dozen countries with a variety of violations, from running an illegal transatlantic passenger airline to swindling and espionage. Says an Interpol official: "Mr. Walcott...
There are the apple-cheeked girls in their travel-poster costumes, twirling their skirts and assorted petticoats, skipping through elaborate variations of Ring-around-a-rosie and London-Bridge-is-falling-down. There are the lordly males who do everything except side-straddle hops. They fling their bodies about the stage like bean bags-somersaulting, jackknifing, slapping their heels. Always they smile, smile, smile. It is all good fun and, despite the Slavic sameness of it all, for sheer exuberance and whoopee making the folk dancers from Eastern Europe are matchless. Americans apparently cannot get enough of them...
...School in Bucks Co., Pa., and onetime student at Atlanta's predominantly Negro Morehouse College, Bond is an $83-a-week publicity director for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Co ordinating Committee, the most militant of all U.S. civil rights organizations. After he had decided to take a fling at politics, he won election over another Negro last summer in Atlanta's largely