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...issue which carried the implication that Eisenhower had been soft with the Russians. He entered the campaign an outsider and left a bad loser--in his final declaration of non-candidacy, Rockefeller avoided endorsing the only serious candidate left in the field, Richard Nixon. In the minds of GOP pros, Rockefeller was forever marked as a man whose personal ambition took precedence over party unity...
...Stars Mark Spitz, Donna de Varona and Micki King, will cover swimming and diving, while Chris Schenkel with Cathy Rigby Mason, America's Olga Korbut, will report gymnastics. Boxing and freestyle wrestling will be called by familiar Mouth Howard Cosell and Face Frank Gifford, respectively. For basketball, Old Pros Curt Gowdy and Bill Russell will be at the mike. Coaches of several sports will also assist...
More than any other Open in history, the 1961 event at Birkdale reaffirmed the early goal of deciding the most formidale player in the world. The prestige of the tournament had been gradually eroded in the post-war years since American pros were lured away by the more lucrative home circuit. This decline allowed Peter Thomson and Bobby Locke to dominate the tournament with eight victories between them in the space of ten years...
...musical organizations is Kirchner's four-year-old brainchild, and its composition and rehearsal schedule are both very much in line with his ideal of musical training--intensive immersion in the theory and practice of music by a group of top-flight musicians, both young hotshots and more experienced pros...
...Chamber Players, Kirchner culls from 180 the top musicians at Harvard (this year, Lynn Chang, Robert Portney, Richard and Judy Kogan and Yo-Yo Ma), selects another seven or eight young musicians from across the country ("the best students" of "the best teachers"), and then invites four or five pros, mostly Marlboro Music Festival alumni, to join in a series of Monday night chamber concerts throughout the summer...