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McGrady's rewriting was interrupted by a reporting stint in Viet Nam, so at midpoint he turned the task over to another columnist, Harvey Aronson, who finished the manuscript last September. Fine, but who is the temptress on the book jacket? She's Billie Young, a Long Island housewife, mother of six, and not incidentally, McGrady's sister-in-law, who managed to sell the manuscript to Publisher Lyle Stuart with a straight face. Stuart learned of the hoax only after he had agreed to publish, and now gamely insists he was even more delighted than before...
...Bowl; three months later he watched in utter disbelief as the Bullets, boasting the best record in the National Basketball Association, managed to blow four straight games in the playoffs to the New York Knicks. But hope is on the wing again. Last week, at the season's midpoint, baseball's highflying Orioles enjoyed a lavish 10½-game lead over the second-place Boston Red Sox in the American League's Eastern Division. With a won-lost percentage over .700-by far the best in either league -the Orioles have clearly established themselves as the team...
...Responses. The report compared home-bred civil disturbances and those in 84 other countries, measured on a complex scale. On that scale, despite the American penchant for violence, the U.S. ranked below the midpoint, at 46th, in the severity of collective wrath...
Dropping to a 39 for the next 12 strokes Harvard settled at a 36 1/2 for the first 1000 meters and the Crimson widened its margin to two lengths by the midpoint of the race. Brown tried to close the gap in the third quarter when Harvard fell to a 35 1/2, but the Crimson responded with a 37 for the final 500 meters and it was all over for the Bruins. The Scarlet Knights were out of it from the start...
...exuberant dash of their new Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who, along with intellect and political skill, exhibits a swinger's panache, a lively style, an imaginative approach to his nation's problems. A great many U.S. voters yearn for a fresh political experience, but at midpoint in 1968, the U.S. presidential race has begun to seem grindingly familiar. Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon appear destined to seize their parties' nominations, then meet in an old-style confrontation in the November election. For some voters, at least, the prospect is enough to start a small migration...