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Freshman Peter Tetlow breezed to victory in the marathon 1650-yd. freestyle event, and placed a close second to Cornell All-American Bob Meade in the 200-yd. butterfly. Sophomore Dave English turned in a solid performance on the boards, taking top honors in the one-meter competition and placing second in the three-meter...
...right. Only one challenger had earned a victory (Spassky won 32 games and granted eight draws) when the marathon drew to a close after almost five hours. Charles Madigan, 21, an intense college dropout, forced Spassky to concede after 51 moves. Then, in a statement that sounded like Bobby Fischer at his brashest, Madigan said: "I didn't play very well...
Recent diagnosers of the national psyche have asked, and partly answered, the questions implicit in their titles. Will America's 300-year-old marathon, The Pursuit of Loneliness, never stop? inquired Philip Slater. Theodore Roszak wondered whether the counterculture of the '60s could lead to a Promised Land, Where the Wasteland Ends. Half autopsy-reporters of the American Dream, half scenario-writers of America 2001, watchers for the new greening (or the last withering) form a kind of avant-garde of prophets-in-waiting...
...question, "Whose freedom and whose press?" Those who envision deep investigative reporting from journalists no longer hampered by legal threats, he argued, fail to perceive the obstacles never faced in the courtroom--pressures from management and the rest of the "pack," the inevitable effects of a grinding marathon beat, and of simple human frailty...
Last week a special meeting of the Labor Party central committee gave Premier Golda Meir an overwhelming vote of confidence, but the 18-hour marathon session betrayed some of the di visions plaguing the country. No sooner had the meeting begun than Deputy Premier Yigal Allon demanded that the whole Cabinet resign. He asserted that the entire Labor Party must accept the responsibility for the mistakes of the war. But some, he said, were more guilty than others. That was an undisguised attack on Dayan, who answered: "You can bring my resignation with the smallest hint. I am not glued...