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...there was California's tousle-haired Claudia Kolb, 17, who 1) won the 400-meter individual medley in world-record time, 2) set a second record in the 200-meter medley, 3) swam the breaststroke leg for the Santa Clara Swim Club's victorious 400-meter med ley relay team, and 4) anchored the same club's winning 800-meter freestyle relay team. Asked whether all that swimming wasn't a little much, Claudia shrugged: "It's better than standing around...
...over the world, for instance, the new bestseller is suddenly Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which JAMES F. COYNE comes encased in red plastic with a red-ribbon marker. At Berke ley, it is treated like an amulet by the Black Muslims; at Columbia, it is outselling everything since Henry Miller; and Bren-tano's at the Pentagon has already unloaded 1,000 copies at $1 each. A few of the buyers may be genuine sinologists, but for the vast majority it is the new camp classic...
Bernard Feustman Gimbel was in the third generation of a merchandising family already well established and wealthy when he entered the business in 1907. He was therefore inevitably tab-loided as "the Merchant Prince." The condescending title never fitted the round-faced ruler of New York's Gree ley Square. In the 34 years he spent on the throne, first as president of Gimbel Bros., Inc., and later as chairman, Gimbel personally changed the family firm into an empire that this year will sell $600 million worth of merchandise in 27 Gimbels stores and 27 swankier Saks Fifth Avenue...
...following night, Calvert drove up for a chat with Smedley at Smedley's 17th century, thatched country cottage 40 miles north of London. At 2:40 a.m., Smedley summoned police. There lay Calvert, dead of a 12-gauge-shotgun blast in the chest. Police arrested Smed ley, who, though admitting the raid, pleaded innocent to the murder...
...LORRAINE HOLLENDONNER Yard ley...