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Mensa's membership grew slowly, for obvious reasons, and the Berrill recruits became increasingly lonely in their Olympian solitude, finally deciding to open the club to the rest of the top one per cent of the English people. Galled by this latitudinarian admissions policy, Berrill retired from the scene muttering about declining standards of excellence...
...Passion in Rome, by Morley Callaghan, a 58-year-old Canadian, whose work has the compelling attraction, to lovers of literary underdogs, of being largely unread. Alfred Kazin, a critic of high reputation, has called its author "a fine artist," and Edmund Wilson, whose stature is even more Olympian, wrote last year that Callaghan's work "may be mentioned without absurdity in association with Chekhov's and Turgenev...
Before leaving for Rome, though, Ohiri had competed unofficially with Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the U.S. He jumped 60 ft. to defeat U.S. Olympian Ira Davis in the hop, step, and jump...
Olympic Flop. Born in Kingston, 22-year-old Sprinter Johnson ran the 100 in 11.5 sec. at the age of twelve, and caught the eye of Jamaican Track Star Herb McKenley. The ex-Olympian painstakingly tutored Johnson for six years, coached him to Jamaican high school records of 9.6 sec. in the 100, 21.1 sec. in the 220, and 50.7 sec. in the 440. In 1959 he entered Bakersfield (Calif.) College, and cut his running times to a creditable 9.4 sec. in the 100, 20.6 in the 220. Unhappy with his poor showing in the 1960 Olympics-he started sloppily...
...papers and columnists strained to see signs of hope. "The landings in Cuba cannot be called a successful military operation," said the Los Angeles Times, "but if they were responsible for putting new strength and determination into American policy, they served a most valuable function." From his Olympian vantage point, Columnist Walter Lippmann dispensed balm to a perturbed nation. Little countries such as Cuba, he assured his readers, "cannot pose a vital threat to the security of the United States, and we must not exaggerate their importance." The New York Times delivered a solemn editorial lecture: "History is not like...