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...Indiana night exploded with hatred for the visiting champions from Ohio State University. Jammed together in the stands on the Bloomington campus, Indiana's fans bellowed their chant like a war cry: "We want blood! We want blood!" Angry knots of students rose to hurl wads of toilet paper at the enemy bench. Down on the court, fired-up Indiana was playing its best game of the year. But Ohio State stonily kept its poise, sank three foul shots in the last minute to finish off its tormentors, 73-69. Five nights later, playing back home in friendly Columbus...
Throughout the centuries, artists have used models in assorted ways, but no one has ever used them in quite the manner of Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf...
...safety man must have the speed of a sprinter to keep up with whippet-fast backs and ends as they break for passes. He must have the wit to diagnose plays in advance, the instinct to follow them as they unfold. He must have the strength and guts to hurl himself head-on at a 230-lb. fullback. And he must learn to live with the chilling reality that as the last line of defense, every time he makes a mistake the enemy gets six points. In the N.F.L., the safety man who comes closest to achieving the impossible...
...meter dash in 10.6 sec., broad-jumped 24 ft. 9¼ in., put the shot 52 ft., high-jumped 5 ft. 10 in., and ran the 400 meters in 48.6 sec. Next day. he returned to spring the no-meter high hurdles in 14.5 sec., hurl the discus 170 ft. 6½ in. (almost 10 ft. farther than he had ever thrown it before), pole-vault 13 ft. ¼ in., throw the javelin 233 ft. 3 in. and run 1,500 meters in 5 min. 9.9 sec. Yet even though Rafer Johnson had broken Kuznetsov's ten-event record...
...world insistence on Christian detachment from society, as preached by Swiss Theologian Karl Earth. Although Earth "is generally acknowledged to be something of a genius" and "certainly has more imagination than any other living theologian." he has made of his theology a neutralist citadel "from which one could hurl anathemas against both the communists and Western democracies...