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Without Catcalls. The two candidates offer the Down East voters a remarkable choice. As the senior Senator from Maine. Margaret Chase Smith, 62, is the U.S.'s ranking female office holder. A cool, silver-haired, sometimes tart-tongued Republican, she has won the esteem of her colleagues and the nation for her diligence, independence and courage. In 23 years on Capitol Hill, as her late husband's secretary, as his successor in the House of Representatives, and as the second woman ever elected to the Senate, Maggie Smith has served her sex, her state and the U.S. with...
...Parry O'Brien, patriarch of the herd at 28. whose best effort this year (63 ft. 5 in.) nonetheless stands a poor third to that of Arizona's 20-year-old Dallas Long (64 ft. 6½ in.) and Kansas' Bill Nieder, 26. the world record holder (65 ft. 10 in.). As the equalizer. O'Brien counts on his imposing reputation to demoralize his teammates, but Army Lieut. Nieder. who dislikes the hulking sight of his rival, says disdainfully: "O'Brien can't 'psych' me out." Top foreign challenger is Britain...
...Melbourne's 1956 Olympics, and Japan's stocky Tsuyoshi Yamanalca, 21, who has smoothed out his rough arm stroke. In the 200-meter butterfly, Indiana's bull-shouldered Mike Troy, 19, will be the surest gold-medal swimming prospect for the U.S. The world record holder (2:13.2). Troy fattens up on milkshakes and slims down with as many as three workouts...
...women's swimming. California's 16-year-old Chris von Saltza will be the favorite in the 400 meters, the top race for the girls. Holder of the world record (4:44.5 ), Chris is the long and leggy (5 ft. 10 in., 140 lbs.) blonde leader of a strong U.S. team. Chris planes high and flat in the water like a surfboard, has a sea lion's endurance-and a teen-ager's superstition about a good-luck plastic frog, which she solemnly stations by her starting block before a race. Her challengers: Australia...
Hardest & Sweetest. The road has been hardest and success sweetest for Bell Telephone's wispy (125 Ibs.) Dr. Pierce. At California Institute of Technology, Pierce. 50, studied chemical engineering, switched to aeronautics and then ("I got bored drawing rivets") to electronics. Holder of 55 electronics patents, Pierce has written three technical books and seven (under the pseudonym of J. J. Coupling), science-fiction stories. His first space-fiction yarn, written in high school, described the abduction of New York's Woolworth Building by aliens from Outer Space...