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...Hara, 40, is a former Olympic volleyball player (1964) and a veteran professional sport entrepreneur. He was a financial adviser and founder of both the American Basketball Association and the World Hockey Association, and briefly had franchises in each league. For the I.T.A., O'Hara invested $100,000 of his own and raised $250,000 more from promotion-minded backers, including a track-shoe manufacturer...
Records will not be recognized by international track authorities because the athletes are competing for money. But official approval matters little to the I.T.A.'s shrewd creator, Mike O'Hara. He plans a North American tour of 18 meets over three months, and he is interested in future gates rather than old statistics. He will even try gimmick events such as coed relays and celebrity races in each meet to supply a change of pace. "You've got to keep people jazzed," he says...
SUNDAY: The Red Pony. Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara star in a mangled version of the John Steinbeck novella. CH. 4. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...MAGRITTE by René Passeron. 93 pages. J. Philip O'Hara. $15. "Only the marvelous is beautiful," Poet André Breton once wrote, and René Magritte's paintings make that point. Since most of the excellent reproductions in this book cover entire pages without frames of white space, the reader is thrust into the Belgian surrealist's enigmatic world. An immense rock floats in the sky, a bottle becomes a carrot, a coffin sits on a wall. Mercifully, the text is minimal, for Magritte's content is captivating beyond words...
...effort to improve the athletes' lot, Sports Promoter Michael O'Hara has announced the formation of a professional track and field circuit that will give displaced stars like Ryun a chance to run for the money. The new International Track Association has already signed Ryun and other world record holders such as Pole Vaulter Bob Seagren and Shot Putter Randy Matson. O'Hara, one of the founders of the American Basketball Association, says the I.T.A. will make its debut next year with as many as 48 meets in the U.S., Canada and Europe. There will...