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...Winter is a cheerful, wide fellow, 5 ft. 10½ in. tall and 198 Ibs. heavy, tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals will help revive interest in the sport in the U.S.," he says wistfully. "It's been pretty depressed lately...
...crusade against the government's plan to close 20 of the country's 200 pits and cut 20,000 workers from the industry payroll of 180,000. The strike has cost an estimated $2.6 billion in lost production and has contributed to the decline of the British pound (at one point this month, its value in U.S. dollars sank to an alltime low of $1.29, compared with $1.50 a year ago). About 140,000 miners are on the picket lines, but another 40,000 continue to work, a situation that has led to many ugly incidents. Televised scenes...
Silverblatt's feeling came from a dollar that this summer has hit all-time highs against nine foreign currencies, including the British pound, the French franc and the Italian lira. The surge has helped to propel American tourists abroad in ever growing numbers. Applicants at the 13 U.S. passport agencies have had to wait up to eight hours this summer just to reach the counter, and clerks have been working six-day weeks. The frantic pace should outstrip last year's, when U.S. travelers made a record 25.3 million trips abroad...
...quarrel fully with modernism. He writes warmly about his youthful passion for the likes of Armstrong, Beiderbecke and Ellington, but charges that Bebop Saxophonist Charlie Parker destroyed it all with music that gave "the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously." Parker thus joins Pound and Picasso in Larkin's unholy trinity of decadent experimenters, and jazz's evolution becomes a capsule version of the "degeneration into private and subsidized absurdity" that he believes is overtaking all the arts. What has been lost, Larkin insists, is his conception of the right relation between artist...
DIED. George Oppen, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet of spare, free-form verse; in Sunnyvale, Calif. An active leftist, he gave up poetry for 28 years for political involvement, living by publishing the work of such poets as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and by laboring as a tool-and-die maker and furniture designer...