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SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Marathon: The Story of the Young Drug Users" explores the tormented world of young addicts during a marathon group-therapy session at Daytop Village, on Staten Island...
According to LIFE, which worked on its story for three months, the fees were for questionable services rendered. The article claimed that Long's Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure has been toiling for the past three years at its marathon probe of wiretapping and bugging mainly for the purpose of collecting evidence to absolve Hoffa of his 1964 conviction for jury tampering...
...months. The fact is, he has been running all over the world-first to Western Europe and Russia, then to Asia for a 21-day swing through Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and South Viet Nam. Last week, Nixon was off to Latin America on the third leg of an international marathon, which, he tells friends, should make him the nation's "best-informed private citizen on world affairs." The trip will continue in Africa and the Middle East next month. By his own hopeful timetable, it should end with his nomination by the Republican Convention next year...
Because of the June 30th expiration date of the Trade Expansion Act, which enables the U.S. to cut its import duties across the board, the Kennedy Round negotiators came under relentless pressure to end the marathon talks last week to allow time for the complex documents to be prepared for President Johnson's signature. Much of the delay was caused by the Common Market team, led by diminutive Jean Rey, a Belgian lawyer who heads EEC external affairs. Again and again since last fall, Rey stalled the bargaining in order to seek fresh instructions from EEC head quarters...
...most interesting match was at first doubles, where Levin and Jarvis countered the power of Army's top two singles players with effective lobbing and some blistering overheads of their own. The Crimson duo won a marathon first set, 17-15, dropped the second, 6-4, and captured the third, 6-4, taking the last four games...