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Under this pressure--not to mention the insistent wails of worried host Mexico, which has put millions of dollars into preparations--Brundage agreed last week to call a special meeting of the IOC to discuss the issue. It was a rare compromise on the part of this man who once said, "Sports transcend politics. It is an international phenomenon like science or music...
Still later that Ash Wednesday night, Rockefeller was host at a private dinner for New York Republican legislators. Over fish and French white wine, he heard more warnings about the dangers of standing pat. By way of response, he said: "I have been accused of dividing the party once [in 1964]. I don't want that ever thrown in my face again." And he again conceded his willingness to be drafted. "But there's a question of how you define a draft," he told his fellow New Yorkers. "I'm going to be thinking about that...
...next weekend at Killington, Vt., Miss Waterston and Miss Storrs swept one-two in the giant slalom Saturday as five Radcliffe girls placed in the top ten positions. On Sunday, Miss Waterston and Miss Storrs switched positions in the slalom while again a host of Cliffies placed high...
...Generation, by three Sunday Times reporters who followed Philby's tracks for nearly a year, going back to examine his strained relations with his father (an explorer and Arabic scholar) and his record at Westminster public school and Cambridge. Author Cyril Connolly, the Earl of Birkenhead and a host of other critics reviewed the book by launching scathing philippics on Philby, but most scathing of all was the preface to the book itself (which will appear this month as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the U.S.). Written by Novelist John le Carr...
Zippered & Belled. Those who feel that tuxedos are old-fashioned are trying out the long, mandarin-collared Mao or Nehru coats. In Los Angeles last week, TV's Tonight Show Host Johnny Carson marched on-camera sporting American Designer Oleg Cassini's version of the Mao in dark blue whipcord. At a recent party given for Manhattan Pop Artist James Rosenquist, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Hoving arrived wearing one by Cardin in black velvet-and looked positively clerical alongside Hostess Ethel Scull's daisy-topped maxiskirt. Still, when Bonwit's advertised Cardin...