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Bomb & Baby Sitter. As a scrawny, limber-legged 16-year-old, Dotty earned a trip to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics. To the youngster, the games seemed unpleasantly charged with politics and crowded with chaperones. To make matters worse, she was nudged out of first place by Hungary's...
Vientiane-capital of the least of the three nations carved out of French IndoChina-lay in its habitual half-slumber beside the Mekong River. It was the Buddhist Lent in Laos. Temple gongs bonged in the viscous humidity; saffron-robed monks strutted about beneath gaudy parasols or sat cross-legged...
Smiles flashed and vodka flowed in Moscow's Spiridonovka Palace one day last week. It was Soviet Foreign Minister Shepilov's way of welcome to his Japanese counterpart, one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, in honor of Shigemitsu's 69th birthday. Gallantly, Shepilov apologized for not having sukiyaki for...
Only a few reconverts turned up. They sat cross-legged on the grass before pig-tailed Brahman pundits for half an hour's chanting of the Vedas, washed themselves with water from the sacred Ganges, and dropped incense on a fire of camphorwood and herbs. "You are again pure...
All year long, American athletes have been popping records like soap bubbles, so far have set new world marks in ten events. In the 24 Olympic track and field events, U.S. athletes right now are good bets to win 13 first places, and, in a few-the pole vault, shotput...