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...most likely to restore the U.S. to international dominance in the sprints. This week he faces the man to beat in that department. At a Soviet-American meet in Minsk, Williams runs against Russian Valery Borzov, who captured the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint at the Munich Olympics last year and thus won recognition as "the world's fastest human...
...decided to do was to paint her face to resemble "a beautiful stone." The 6-ft. 1-in. blonde soon went on to paint her whole body-mimicking the textures and patterns of nature. Usually Veruschka wears her highly decorative camouflage only at home on her farm near Munich. More conventionally attired, she has branched out into television and personal appearances, including one in Tokyo to peddle Swiss watches and the Japanese jewels that go in them. "Suddenly they wrapped me up in purple and started pointing all those Japanese cameras at me. They forget about the watches...
Died. Georges Bonnet, 83, last important political survivor of the French Third Republic; in Paris. Bonnet was best known as an architect of the ill-fated Munich Pact with Hitler in 1938. Ambassador to the United States in 1937, he was a Cabinet Minister in no less than 18 of his country's governments between 1925 and 1939. Charges against Bonnet of collaborating with the Nazis as a member of the Vichy government were dropped in 1949. He returned from exile in Switzerland to serve for another twelve years in the National Assembly...
Engaged. Avery Brundage, 85, former president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72) and longtime curmudgeonly opponent of commercialism in amateur sports; and Mariann Princess Reuss, 37, descendant of German royalty and a hostess at last summer's Munich Olympics. Said Brundage, a widower for nearly two years: "The princess is very mature for her age. People say I am young...
Died. Emmy Sonnemann Goring, 80, Junoesque wife of No. 2 Nazi Hermann Göring and unofficial first lady of the Third Reich; after a long illness; in Munich. A provincial actress in her youth, she stepped into the international limelight in 1935 by becoming the second Mrs. Goring; Adolf Hitler was best man at the wedding. In 1948, two years after her husband committed suicide in prison, Frau Goring was convicted of being a Nazi and was barred from acting for five years. Unable to stage a comeback, she lived out her days in a small apartment in Munich...