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...route) walked the 50 miles in 10 hr. 28 min.. boasted he could cut two hours off that time. Newspapers scrambling for a "bright feature" put their most athletic reporters on the road, though few finished 50 miles. One-the San Francisco Chronicle's Bob Robertson-managed 50 miles around the city's famed Scenic Drive, which the Chronicle thought should be renamed "Robertson's Track...
Barbuda is 28 miles north of Antigua, which has been definitely In for the past few years, mainly because of the presence of the Mill Reef Club at Exchange Bay. Founded by Robertson ("Happy") Ward, a designer of tropical resorts, Mill Reef is spread over 1,440 acres, where 50 proprietary members have houses (there are 250 additional members), and there are 31 rooms for guests. Rates for two people: $50 a day. Non-members may come only once; unless they are invited to become members or visit a member, that's the last they see of Mill Reef...
...ardor and audacity that are in bright contrast with the fashionable listlessness that was once seemingly endemic among educated Britons. They laugh easily at themselves and view the world with a wry detachment that is often in striking contrast with the prickly provincialism of their elders. Says Bryan Robertson, 36, one of the most influential art gallery directors in Britain: "The intelligence of the people over the past ten years has vastly outstripped the intelligence being meted out to them by their leaders. They're way, way ahead of the politicians. And there's a yawning gulf between...
...Didn't Work." With Robertson in the lineup, Cincinnati was a run-and-shoot team that delighted fans with its hipper-dipper attack-but never won a national championship. When Jucker took over, Cincinnati abruptly became deliberate and defense-minded. "I asked myself where I was going to make up all those points," he says. "I decided that maybe if we gave up only 40 points a game, we wouldn't need to score much. But I knew I was asking for trouble. If it didn't work, I was dead." It worked so well that Jucker...
Elbows & Springs. Most topflight college teams rely primarily on the all-round wizardry of one gifted player. Kentucky has its Cotton Nash, Duke has Art Heyman, and pre-Jucker Cincinnati had Robertson. This year's Bearcat squad has no one player whose talent towers over the rest; instead, it is a well-coordinated collection of specialists. Center George Wilson is a 6-ft. 8-in. giraffe from Chicago who turned down 89 other college offers to go to Cincinnati; his job is to control the backboards, and his sharp elbows have helped him pull down 81 rebounds...