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Crimson entries will probably win five events. Sprint ace Aggrey Awori should win both the 100 and 220 yard dashes, but he will face stiff competition in the latter from Oxford's Adrian Metcalfe, a former Olympian. Blodgett will probably edge Awori and Hank Hatch in the high and low hurdles, but Awori could easily win the broad jump if he is not too tired...
...motorcade reached the city limits, De Gaulle jumped to his feet, waved theatrically to the Athenians gathered under the pepper trees. At Hadrian's Arch, near the Temple of Olympian Zeus, he said with feeling: "No Frenchman, especially myself, could fail to be moved by this city, nor forget what has been accomplished here for liberty in 3,000 years." Then he plunged nearsightedly into the curbside crowd to shake hands-a procedure that gives his security guards perpetual jitters...
...yard dash. Ashworth has run 9.4 in the 100 yard dash, and is rapidly returning to his earlier form. Awori had lost to the Indian star in the BAA meet last month by about a yard and was unable to decrease the margin on Saturday. The former Olympian had won the high hurdles earlier, however, in 7.4 seconds...
...enormous influence of Kafka on such writers as Robbe-Grillet, Camus and Sartre. In a final chapter that judges Kafka against Camus (unfairly, and at Camus's great expense), he notes the obvious distinctions in the work of two writers often compared: what Camus says in Olympian detachment, Kafka says in nervous excitement ; where Camus needs crisis to show man's decay, Kafka is content with indolence; in Camus the characters are absurd, but in Kafka it is the universe...
What most impresses everyone close to him is Charles de Gaulle's Olympian assurance that the will of De Gaulle will prevail. The instructions for night-duty officers at the Elysee Palace read simply: "Do Not Disturb the President of the Republic Except in Case of World...