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Hunter S. Thompson as war correspondent? Damn straight. Just as soon as he finds a decent room. He hates dirt, and went through four hotels before finding one with hot water. With his trademark cigarette holder in one hand, gin-and-tonic in the other, Thompson is covering the goings-on in Grenada for Rolling Stone. This time he has no "Great Red Shark," the rented Chevy convertible in his account of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but a rented fire-red mini Moke, an open-sided vehicle that honeymooners use on Caribbean beach tours. He also...
...Holder of the fifth, sixth and eighth longest field goals (45, 44 and 42 yards, respectively...
...Babe Didrikson and Buster Crabbe. The most sensational events were men's track and field, in which new world marks were set nearly every day. Probably the most heart-stopping was the 5,000-meter run: Ralph Hill, a hitherto unknown American, raced after the world-record holder, Finland's Lauri Lehtinen. Hill tried to pass him on the outside, then the inside, and was finally beaten in a virtual dead heat. The largely American crowd was angry at first, believing that the Finn had unfairly tried to stop Hill, but a word from the announcer ("Remember please...
...make these wines." Comments Peter Bachman, Chateau Ste. Michelle's head wine maker: "You have to juggle with what nature gives you." Most experts admit they still do not know which vines will grow best in which areas. Says David Lake, 40, wine maker for Associated Vintners and holder of the prestigious European accreditation Master of Wine: "All of us are involved in experimentation. We are totally dependent on the wines to do what they will. The vineyards here are so young and inconsistent...
...than 10 Black undergraduates for all of the lectures combined. At a well advertised dinner discussion. Dr. Jean Nobel, noted Black historian and women's rights activist, drew only one Black undergraduate (and fortunately several Black Graduate students and staff.) Recently, Dr. Samuel Proctor--a leading Black educator scholar, holder of the Martin Luther King professorship Rutgers and pastor of the country's largest and most prestigious Black church--delivered a major lecture on Black cultural history. Only one Black undergraduate attended. This prompted Dr. Proctor to express both concern and sympathy for what he called the "lost" Black student...