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Athletic teams, as a rule, have rough schedules. Harvard's golfers begin theirs with a two-week jaunt to Florida and the sunny south...
...route. There he pauses for 30 pushups, 30 situps, and occasionally a dozen chin-ups on a convenient tree branch. Then he heads home, sprinting the last 200 yards to "make the blood flow into the fin gers and toes and lungs and head." In Cambridge, his jaunt brings only looks of tolerant amusement from those he passes...
...Jacqueline Kennedy, 38, has occasionally been wearing a magnificent leopard coat made from $30,000 worth of rare skins given her by the Somali government when she was First Lady. Last month the generous Somalis presented a similar token of their esteem to Muriel Humphrey, 55, during her African jaunt with the Vice President. Alas! The intervening years have seen the passage of a law prohibiting Government officials from accepting any gift of more than "minimal value," and Muriel had to turn the furs over to the State Department. There is a possibility, said State, that Humphrey might be allowed...
...teams exchanged series of downs and then Yale punted to Harvard 77 yards from the Eli goal. An offside penalty put the ball at the 28, and then Kelly broke loose on a 28-yard jaunt to the Yale 44. Szaro sliced to the 37 and the bull-like Varney trundled to the 23. With time running out, Szaro swept right end to the 11 where Harvard elected to try the ill-fated field goal...
MAYA (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Two boys, one American and one Indian, join forces with an elephant, Maya, for an adventure-filled jaunt through India. Terry Bowen (Jay North, once "Dennis the Menace") arrives in Bombay where reports say his father has been killed by a tiger. As he sets out to prove rumor wrong, Terry is joined by Orphan Boy Raji (Sajid Khan) and his lifelong companion, Maya. Premi...