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...cavernous Peking Gymnasium a former diplomat named Yao Teng-shan last month was unceremoniously dragged before a gallery of 4,000 approving spectators, then forced to bow down in humble obeisance while his hands and arms were twisted behind his back. The leader of a Red Guard unit during the frenetic Cultural Revolution, which all but paralyzed China between 1966 and 1969, Yao was accused of mounting a raid on the Chinese foreign ministry, burning down the British chancellery, and plotting a personal assault on Premier Chou Enlai. Yao's reported sentence: ten years in prison...
HEINZ Kissinger was born in the small village of Fuerth, in Franconia, on May 27, 1923. His father was a professor at the gymnasium, or prep school, in Fuerth; his Jewish upbringing was marked by an early respect for scholarship. But by 1930, the Nazis had seized power in Franconia, and after eight years of social torture and humiliation, the Kissinger family was forced to abandon its home and migrate to America...
Basketball-varsity coach Bob Harrison would like a 4500-seat gymnasium. The IAB court is always overcrowded during the hours in which pickup games are allowed. A new field house on Soldiers' Field is a possibility...
Reappraisal Needed. For the Japanese hosts, and for most of the 4,500 fans who thronged daily into the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium, the results were a severe blow. Japan won only one title-in the women's team competition-for its worst showing since 1952. To compound the ignominy, the Japanese saw their 1969 world singles champ, Shigeo Ito, upset in the men's final by Sweden's Stellan Bengtsson, 18. Said a crestfallen spokesman for the Japanese delegation: "We simply have to have a sweeping reappraisal of our techniques...
...OSTENSIBLE purpose of the conference was to determine a spring strategy for the antiwar movement, but the issue had pretty much been decided by the time the conference started. Entering the gymnasium Friday evening, one was greeted by huge banners proclaiming the march on Washington April 24 as the central focus of the spring actions, and the hawkers were pushing buttons and posters with the big 24 on them. SMC had already decided that April 24 was going to be the day when the American people would rise up and force the government to withdraw from Southeast Asia. Like...