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...fans, though relying on ear-splitting whistles instead of clanging cowbells. Countrymen were cheered lustily, as long as they were winning, and foreign rivals were jeered, with gusto. The racket was deafening for visiting pole vaulters, who are accustomed to the polite silence accorded a golfer bending over his putt. Wladislaw Kozakiewicz of Poland finally shut up the unruly crowds with a world record (18 ft. 11 ½in.), then defiantly shook his arm at them. Said he: "The public was very bad. It was like boxing...
...photographed--despite and including the world's meanness, violence, and disorder. Even the most coolly-pictured scenes convey a sharp sense of the photographer's elation in the face of his medium's immense range, its omnivorousness. Consider, as a final example, James Bodo's color photograph showing a "Putt-Putt" miniature car raceway, empty and sheeted in snow. It is difficult to look hard at such a picture without being overtaken by a sudden, intimate, desolating sense of the particular strangeness and beauty of 20th-century civilization, and without realizing simultaneously that this exact, simple configuration of forms...
Alexander got off to a frustrating start early in the match by bogeying the first five holes. He came back with a twisting birdie on the par-four sixth when he tipped in a short putt...
Arnold attributed the absence of a sub-80 round by the Crimson to the winter conditions on the course as most of the linksters fell victim to three putt greens on five or six occasions. "The greens were unbelievable," he said last night. "It was like putting on a linoleum floor in your kitchen and trying to aim for your dish-washer...
...ticket, watched dumbfounded as West German Boxer George Butzbach put the puffing champ on the ropes with a series of sharp counterpunches. A winded Ali never did finish another match with former European Champion Karl Mildenberger. As they said after World War II, All's ka-putt in Deutschland...