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Said Guest: "I feel quite sick." >-Two weeks after New York's Al Oerter became the first man to fling a discus over 200 ft. (his mark: 200 ft. 5½ in.), Russia's Vladimir Trusenev smashed Oerter's record with a heave of 202 ft. 2¾ in. during a track meet in Leningrad. Sighed Oerter: "You just can't throw them far enough these days...
Twining & Twisting. A more conventional setting for a royal fling was the Dutch luxury liner Oranje, which its owners lent to Queen Juliana for an evening cruise along the North Sea Canal. Sporting $12 million worth of jewelry, the titled guests were joined midway by 180 college friends of Juliana's four daughters. Among the friends: a 25-year-old lawyer, Bob Steensma, who has often been photographed holding hands and drinking wine with Princess Beatrix, 24, heiress apparent to the Dutch throne...
...barge may take one last fling before its demise. Sullivan refused to deny rumors that he will anchor the boat in front of the home of M.I.T.'s president
...anxious, there is something a bit disturbing about all the wholesome good humor. The new bronze figures by Sculptor Chaim Gross at Manhattan's Forum Gallery appear to be having the time of their lives: mothers and children dance and embrace; acrobats tumble gaily over each other; jugglers fling their rings dexterously into the air. It takes a moment to shed the superstition that to be light-hearted is automatically to be lightweight...
...frailty. "Emotion has to be the heart of the song,"Brown says. "You make the people feel; they make themselves think." Expression of Hope. Ardent and boyish at 35, Brown grew up on Chicago's South Side. He attended three colleges without success, finally took a halfhearted fling at his father's real estate business. He wrote Brown Baby, his best-known song, eleven years ago as an expression of hope for the world inherited by the first of his five children. Then, without learning to read music, he was suddenly composing in earnest, humming his tunes...