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...Edward Whitehead, bearded pitchman for Schweppes quinine water. Among 2,000 other honors: a knighthood for Guardian Cartoonist David Low-who now becomes Sir David-creator of that enduring symbol of bumbling bureaucracy, Colonel Blimp; an Order of the British Empire for New Zealand Runner Peter Snell, world record holder in the mile, half-mile, 1,000-yd. and 500-meter races; Commanders of the Order of the British Empire for Novelist Elspeth Huxley, Poet Stephen Spender, Actor Emlyn Williams...
...short, Munro enjoys one of his strongest lacrosse teams in his 14 years as a University coach. Most of the players that make it strong are seniors. If the Crimson is ever going to beat Princeton, holder of the Ivy League Lacrosse crown for the past five years, it will have to be done this year...
After a careful weighing of all criteria, including time and distance traveled, experts on congressional expense accounts somewhat dazedly acclaimed a new record holder: Maryland's Democratic Congress man Richard E. Lankford, 47. On a 38-day junket that carried him from Honolulu to Scotland "to see how our military assistance program ties in with our defense effort," the eleventh-ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee managed, by his own account, to spend $3,597 on meals, hotels and "miscellaneous." When a reporter incredulously noted that all this averaged out at better than $11 a meal...
Aggrey Awori challenged Frank Budd, world record holder in the 100-yd. dash in this years Knights of Columbus meet. Dave Abramson set two NCAA freshman records down at Yale (in the 220 and 440 freestyle). Billy Morris, freshman squash ace, was only defeated in his bid for his second consecutive National Junior Squash Tournament crown by varsity star Vic Neiderhoffer...
...Marines next month), pursued by promoters, haunted by autograph hounds. His fan mail"runs to 300 letters a week. When he holds a press conference, his commanding general personally issues the invitations. But Uelses is a controversial champion. "I'm antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses isn't a great vaulter. All he did was perfect a gimmick." Bragg's complaint: Uelses uses a feather-light (5 Ibs.) flexible fiber-glass pole that-says Bragg -acts like a slingshot, catapulting the vaulter to heights he could not otherwise reach. (Countered...