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...leather gloves costs only $5), the sport now claims some 5,500,000 participants. "When you're young, you play singles and run and sweat," says one handballing Chicago doctor. "Later you take up doubles, and when you're 70, you pick a strong partner and just putter around...
Tiring of conversation with reporters his first day out, Templeton approached Steven Cohen, a sophomore shot putter, who was having his troubles. He worked with Cohen's body position for a moment and said, "Go thead and throw one." Cohen threw, and the shot landed two feet past the best previous mark. "That's the best I've felt in two weeks," Cohen remarked, and Templeton beamed with satisfaction...
...only unfortunate part of the day for the Crimson came when Steve Cohen, a shot-putter, tripped and fell 15 yards before the passing zone, while running the 220-yard leg of the sprint medley relay...
Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge of the Crimson tied meet standards in the hurdle and dash events, and Cadet two-miler Dick Greene established a new mark with a 9:23.3 clocking. Shot putter Keith Nance and Bill Hanne in the 1000 were other Army record-breakers...
...years he has lived with Tolstoyan simplicity in a rambling dacha near Moscow, where he likes to putter in the garden. Twice married, he has three grown sons. Pasternak prefers to write standing up in his virtually bookless den. There he was touched recently to receive the first copy he had seen of the U.S. edition of Doctor Zhivago. Revealing the underlying pathos of his isolation, he asked his visitor eagerly, "Do you think Hemingway and Faulkner will read...