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Those who are going could still cause some fuss at Rutgers, where the Eastern championship meet will be held. Bakkensen has the best discus throw in the East this year, and has lost just once, when, Manhattan's erratic Bob Steigerwald got off a 175 ft. throw and beat him by two feet in the Penn relays. Bakkensen, a consistent 170-footer this spring, should win Saturday...
...National Gallery in 1961 just after the British government had spent $392,000 to buy the Goya masterpiece back from U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman. While sleuths looked high and low, the thief sent ransom notes, first demanding full value, then offering to settle for $140,000. "When the fuss has died down, the painting will return," predicted Gallery Director Sir Philip Hendy. So it has, in good condition, wrapped in brown paper and left in a Birmingham railroad station...
...fuss is about the civilian police review board in Rochester, N.Y. Set up two years ago, after a series of Negro complaints about mistreatment by white policemen, the board has yet to hear a single case, but its supporters-chiefly civil rights leaders, unionists and clergy -feel that it has caused the police to discipline themselves better. Almost to a man, the city's 536 policemen feel that the board is intolerable...
...COUPLE consists of a gruff sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and a fuss-budgety newscaster (Art Carney) who share living quarters after losing their wives. Thanks to them, plus Playwright Neil Simon and Director Mike Nichols, this ménage produces a volcanic flow of laughs...
Pathos in a Line. Other Peanuts characters pop up from time to time. Lucy has several fuss-budget understudies: Patty, Sally, Violet and Frieda. Pig-Pen is a "human soil bank" who raises a cloud of dust on a perfectly clean street and passes out gumdrops that are invariably black. Mop-haired Schroeder is always banging out Beethoven on the piano or gazing soulfully at a bust of the master ("I picked Beethoven," says Schulz, "because he is sort of pompous and grandiose. I like Brahms better"). Lucy is in love with Schroeder, but he is too busy with Beethoven...