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Reflecting an upsurge of interest by Americans in the new China, other invitations poured into Peking. The New England Amateur Athletic Association invited China to send athletes to the Hoi-yoke, Mass., Marathon on June 6. Chinese competitors were asked to join in everything from the U.S. Open tennis championships to the Miss Universe contest. United Air Lines, somewhat precipitously, applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to fly to Canton, Shanghai and Peking...
Author Erich Segal may have been a longtime No. 1 on the bestseller lists with Love Story, but you can't win them all. He panted in 489th out of a field of 887 in last week's Boston Marathon. But, as Harper & Row's pro motion manager must certainly agree, it wasn't a total loss-the 26 miles, 385 yards seemed to be lined with Love Story lovers. Said No. 489 afterward: "The muscles that hurt the most are in the mouth, from smiling back at the people." For Segal the marathon also disproved...
...wanted to do was take a swim. When I got to the pool, people started hounding me to swim as much as I could and sign some stupid list." one Radcliffe woman said after being another unwitting participant in the marathon...
...North House swimmers, bitter after losing to South House in both the Fall Marathon and the House Swimming Meet, swam like they meant it to edge out the other two contenders. North totalled 3471 20-yard lengths, followed closely by South with...
Wolbach's John Burris, so loyal to North that he tried to pass for a female in the House meet held a few weeks ago, swam 500 lengths over the five days of the marathon, Burris's performance was equalled by sophomore Joan Fuchs of Holmes...