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...Wilson. At eight, he could calculate cube roots in his head. After graduating from Harvard in 1956, he studied for his doctorate at Caltech under Murray Gell-Mann, the 1969 Nobel laureate in physics. One of his favorite spare-time activities is folk dancing, in particular the rousing Swedish hambo...
...payoff, indicating a betting coup. But here, at the 46th running of the Hambletonian, no betting was allowed or ever had been by long tradition. The U.S.'s most prestigious race for standardbreds, and the middle leg of the Triple Crown for three-year-old male trotters,*the Hambo was a reminder of the luster that once belonged to a sport redolent with nostalgia and grassroots Americana...
...general folk dancing will be led by E. Eddy Nadel, director of the Harvard Folk Dance Society. It will include the Viennese waltz, polkas, the Swedish hambo, schottisches, and figure dancing from America, Germany, and Scandinavia...
Harry Matthews of Seattle has been knocking over the hambos of the middleweight and light-heavyweight divisions for eight years, but the wise boys just asked, "Who'd he ever beat?" Matthews had fought most of his 87 fights on the West Coast (and won 55 by knockouts), had never in his life been matched into Madison Square Garden. Last week, against a slugging left-hander named Bob Murphy, distinctly no hambo, he made his Garden debut. Murphy and the skeptical East Coast found out about Harry Matthews...
...northern Sweden, he attributes his flawless style to the springy forest paths, thickly padded with pine needles, where he first learned to run. He believes he is smooth and swift because he enjoys running more than anything else in the world except playing his accordion and doing the hambo, a native Swedish dance...
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