Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that only a week before had lost ingloriously to tiny Ecuador in the American Zone finals. Illinois' black-browed Marty Riessen beat Denmark's No. 7-seeded Jan Leschly 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Then, in an 89-game, 3 ½-hr, marathon that ranks among the longest in Wimbledon history, Texas' crew cut Cliff Richey outlasted Australia...
...also a heavy. The chorus, led by Susan Channing, is not, like most Greek choruses, self-conscious and uncomfortably out of place, but perfectly at ease as it stands around the stage reciting, or lounges in the front row of the auditorium. And Lloyd Schwartz makes a marathon of his two walk...
...Senatorial Heep." On the main count there was never much doubt, and Long's marathon defense served only to turn a painful exercise into an unseemly ordeal that ended by depriving Dodd of even the last vestige of dignity. Often sentimental, Dodd eventually pleaded his cause with the mawkishness of a white-haired Uriah Heep. "How many times do you want to hang me?" he asked his colleagues. "If you want to do it, be done with it-be done with it! Do away with me, and that will be the end! But in the twilight of my life...
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...