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...women's track (6). Unexpectedly, the proud U.S. men's track team won only nine gold medals (v. 15 in the 1956 Olympics), set chauvinistic officials to charging that the best event of American athletes was the marathon of wine, women and song. Lost in the furor was the obvious fact that the U.S. still easily dominated men's track (runner-up Russia had five gold medals) and had, in fact, sprung major surprises of its own on the world by grabbing nine gold medals in swimming, three in wrestling and three in boxing...
After all the charges and countercharges had been debated, the seminar wound up earnestly deploring "a loss of respect for women among young men," and calling on students to form "squads to apprehend and check" disrespectful behavior. All but lost in the righteous furor was the quietly reasonable voice of one male student. "Tell me," he asked, "is there any country in the world where the boys do not indulge in this game...
...Reporter Ed Cony visited the Georgia-Pacific Corp. to do a story on the integrated lumber industry. Back in June, the New York Times had reported the deal between Georgia-Pacific and Shanks in a story that gave no figures, caused little comment. But that was before the Chrysler furor. When Reporter Cony pieced together the deal's details, the Journal put the story on Page...
...wears, is co-owner of Oregon's Old Dominion Co., an investment firm that owns timber that Georgia-Pacific has contracted to cut under a deal like Shanks's. Carrol Shanks maintains that "there is not the slightest violation of ethics" about his deal. Nonetheless, the furor that greeted the publicity has already taught him that, for people who live in glass houses, discretion should be worth more than tax savings. Says Shanks: "I'll never have private dealings again with a company that does business with Prudential...
...bearing and his demeanor during the recent and current debacles of the summit blowup and the furor in Japan recall to many a U.S. heart, I am sure, a sentiment that Confucius approvingly ascribes to his pupil Tseng Ts'an: "In a moment of crisis he remains unshaken: Is such a man a Great...