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Nothing else mattered in last week's clash between Peru and Argentina. Na tional teams from the two countries were playing in a continent-wide round robin to decide on two teams to represent Latin America in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Argentina, with a 5-0 record, seemed a shoo-in. Peru had two wins and a tie, but with three to play, still had a chance-if it could get by the tough Argentines. Scalpers had a field...
Legend, song and the movies have portrayed the desperadoes of the U.S. frontier as Robin Hoods. This may have had some validity in the case of folk heroes like Jesse James and Billy the Kid, on whom the wide open plains imposed a certain gallantry. But in earlier days, when the West was still east of the Mississippi, the frontier spawned a group of brutal outlaws lauded in no song or story. They gouged out eyes, bit off noses, scalped, never robbed without murdering, casually shot women and children. They disposed of bodies by splitting them open, filling them with...
...Robin's sisters and my Aunt's lily daughter Laughed and talked, and tinkled light as wrens If there were a little colony all hens To go walking by the steep turn of Sweetwater. Let them alone dear Aunt, just for one minute Till I go fishing in the dark of my mind...
...same time Lassman expects the Commission to drop Sonny Liston, now number one contender, from the rankings, thus leaving the motley crew of Doug Jones, Ernie Terrell and Eddie Machen as the top three contenders in a round-robin competition for the crown...
...Britain's two-man bobsled team of TONY NASH and ROBIN DIXON had all kinds of trouble: first, they broke an axle, had to borrow a replacement from Italy's eight-time world champion, Eugenio Monti. Then, zooming down Igls' hairy, ice-coated run at better than 60 m.p.h., the Britons suddenly lost control of their sled, narrowly missed shooting off the course. They still won-giving Britain its first Winter Olympics gold medal since 1952. The generous Monti finished third...