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...Konradses (and just about every other competitor) can testify to the contrary. The pleasures of sun and sand on Australia's splendid beaches are among the first things that aspiring swimmers learn to forgo. The surf is too tiring; besides, there is no time for such fun. Nor is there time for movies, dances and other teen-age pastimes. All winter, the Konradses spend their spare moments at a wearing routine of bodybuilding exercises. All summer, they swim and swim and swim some more-always in pools, always under the critical eye of young (24) Coach Don Talbot...
...France every Thursday night some 2,500,000 people forgo their Sagan, their cinema and other well-known Gallic pastimes to watch a new-style quiz show called Tetes et Jambes, literally "Heads and Legs" but loosely translated "Brains and Brawn." On Brains, the glint of gold is only incidental to the visual gimmicks and the sheer fun of watching the nation's top musclemen come to the aid of the IBMinded. To take home his cut of a $5,600 jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene...
...building, Sun-Times management rolled up its sleeves for a long-awaited scrap. Restricted to 96-page press runs by inadequate mechanical facilities in the old building, ailing Marshall Field Jr.'s fast-rising Sun-Times had to turn away advertisers 14 days last year, once had to forgo 17 pages of ads. The new presses, capable of turning out 128-page papers, will also allow the Sun-Times to go all out for the added circulation it could not handle in its old building. Now the ninth biggest U.S. newspaper, the Sun-Times (circ. 588,181) boasts that...
Sukarno yielded to his soldiers' entreaties, called on Hatta privately for two hours and requested Hatta's good offices in persuading the rebel colonels to obey constitutional authority again. Hatta agreed, provided that Sukarno would forgo his "unconstitutional" approach to Indonesia's problems. After the meeting they strolled out together, Sukarno armed with a black umbrella, the traditional symbol for Javanese aristocracy. For the assembled photographers they shook hands several times. But when the photographers asked them to join hands like brothers, they refused...
California GOPoliticians have for weeks been hoping that Governor Goodwin J. Knight would forgo a try at re-election next year, instead take over (in a sure walk) the Senate seat of retiring William Fife Knowland. Reason: Bill Knowland is certain to announce soon that he himself is a candidate for governor, and every Republican-as well as every hand-rubbing Democrat-knows that a Knight-Knowland primary battle would create one of the ding-dongest political fights in California's history, all to the detriment of the Republican Party. Beyond that, as they all know as well...