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Chaffee, Harvard's anchor man, caught up with and passed the tail skier for Dartmouth's "B" team to give the Crimson sixth place among the colleges entered. His time of 39 minutes and 35 seconds was the third best performance of the day. Olympian Larry Damon finished first, one minute and five seconds ahead of Chaffee...
Albania gets a black mark for staging show trials of political opponents in the worst Stalinist tradition. Cameroun is condemned for banning opposition parties. Portugal is reprimanded for censoring its press. U.S. segregationists are denounced for flouting the U.S. Constitution. With Olympian impartiality, the quarterly Bulletin of the International Commission of Jurists attacks violations of human rights wherever it finds them...
...central panel, "Time Abducting Beauty," is a paragon of Tiepolo's pagan allegories rich with Olympian overtones. Unquestionably it is the best Tiepolo in Britain, Carritt said, but despite popular demand, the public will not see it. At week's end TJ.A.R.'s President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered his London embassy to have the Tiepolo paintings dismantled and shipped to Cairo. Nasser's reported plan: to exhibit them in the Egyptian capital, then offer them for sale to the world's museums. Said a curator of Britain's National Gallery...
...Haven, the Yale swimming machine, operating without its Olympian cogs, still managed to thump Army...
...head up the 170,000-man, $6 billion-a-year Veterans Administration (third largest Government employer behind Defense and the Post Office), Johnson chose William J. Driver, 46, a VA career man who has served as deputy administrator for nearly four years. Even on this less than Olympian level of Government, Johnson was being unusually reticent about discussing who was in and who was out-the word was that the President just does not want "the wives of these administrators to start crying in bed because they had read that the President had fired their husbands...