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...With 17 suitcases, a pair of bright blue skis and a parakeet in a cage, Princess Irene of The Netherlands tripped gaily aboard a chartered KLM airliner last month, unnoticed by the press. Prettiest of four royal sisters and second in line of succession (after Princess Beatrix, 27), blonde, buxom Irene, 24, took off for Spain, whose culture and language she studied at the University of Utrecht. By last week, when she finally returned home, Irene had stirred bitter animosities among her people, delighted many others, flouted her family's sternest tradition, and rocked the House of Orange...
...permissive zoning" and other measures, New York has since bussed or shifted thousands of Negro children to mostly white schools. The new plan aims to pair about one-fifth of the city's mostly Negro schools with nearby mostly white schools, so that all children of some elementary grades attend one school and all children of other elementary grades attend another. Moreover, it envisions smaller classes, more Negro teachers, more pre-school instruction to give Negro children a better start, and an end to culture-biased IQ tests and to the short class days caused by multiple sessions...
...Squaw Valley in 1960. But accidents will happen, and for a costly instant on the turn, Grishin lost control of one skate. He still finished in 40.6 sec.-enough to tie a Norwegian and another Russian. Then a stocky apprentice barber from Essexville, Mich., set off in a pair of borrowed skates. Body crooked forward ("sitting down over his skates," experts call it), arms and legs pumping rhythmically, Richard ("Terry") McDermott, 23, slashed through the straightaway, around the turn, and across the finish line in 40.1 sec.-giving the U.S. its first gold medal and an Olympic record to boot...
McDermott's victory was not just surprising; it was incredible. In Russia, sport is not just a leisure-time activity; it is a natural resource like uranium-and hang the cost of mining. A pair of top-quality speed skates costs only $12 (v. $75 in the U.S.), and there are 13 speed skating rinks in Moscow alone. Champions like Grishin and Lidia Skoblikova are "amateurs" mainly because there are no professionals in Russia. Grishin is an officer in the Red army, and Skoblikova is a schoolteacher who finds time for some seven hours of practice every day. Even...
...this pair one of the top scorers in the League (6-2 forward Stan Pawlak) and the biggest center amongst the Ivies (6-8 John Hellings) and it spells trouble for the Crimson...