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...SPITE OF the televised hoo-ra-rah of Nixon's trip to China last February, and all the instant books on "The New China" which have proliferated in the aftermath, the need for reporting in-depth persists. Most of the small number of reporters given the chance to enter the country with the Presidential mission were caught by the suddenness of the Chinese overtures of friendliness, went on little notice, and had little notion of the country's history and customs. Once there, they discovered that some expertise was needed in order to treat the big stories; nationalism, the people...
...about this point, any non-Brazilian begins to wonder what in the world is going on. The answer: capoeira (pronounced cap-oh-wcry-rah), a combination of folk dancing and self-defense that has become a national craze. Along the beaches, in parks and at festivals all over Brazil, enthusiasts leap, fade, swing and sing in the country's first truly national folk manifestation. Capoeira pervades nearly every aspect of Brazilian life, from pop songs and poetry to sport and even formal receptions for state visitors. It resembles a super-athletic ballet, its deadly blows precisely calculated to miss...
...salvage the season was to beat Yale. Cahalan, not the coaches, decided to leave 200-yd. freestylers Al Ackerman and Henry Watson off the traveling team to Penn, ostensibly to stay at Harvard and work out for the upcoming Yale meet. Resentment toward Cahalan and his philosophy of rah-rah swimming was building, and the team wasn't quite sure how he had obtained so much power. However, everyone did want to beat Yale. They lost to Yale and all that was left were the Easterns. Usually, anyone who had qualified would get to go, but Ackerman. Watson and Rich...
...teammates, Griese is a respected if somewhat distant leader. No rah-rah man, his most insistent utterance in the huddle is "Let's get going." Says Griese: "I don't say anything. I just call the plays and make them work." And work and work. Though he is a good swivel-hipped scrambler and has one of the quickest releases in the league, 6 ft. 1 in., 190 lb. Griese is running and passing less and enjoying it more. Once he threw as many as 35 passes a game; against Baltimore last week he threw only eight times...
...enough is enough. You yourselves were among the first to speculate that praise may ruin Dick Cavett. Why contribute to some rah-rah press campaign that just may cheer Dick off the air? You have brought him to the apex; is it downhill from here...