Word: rolander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born. To Sue Lyon, 25, former film nymphet (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana), and Roland Harrison, 33, a Los Angeles photographer; their first child, a daughter. Name: Nona Merrill...
Some athletes show capitalist cunning in making the most of the bonus system. Roland Matthes, world record holder in the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke, has a habit of setting new records by small margins. When somebody else swims faster, he gets another chance to top the time and earn another premium. Frank Wiegand, former world record holder for the 400-meter freestyle, used to get a bonus of 100 marks ($31?"every 'time he"set a personal record with his army sports club. He proceeded to swim various distances and strokes, each time setting his own record...
...cheering, weeping ovation for Chaplin -was Gene Hackman's Best Actor award for his performance as a narcotics cop in The French Connection, proving what all actors yearn to believe: a nice, hard-working guy can still get ahead in the movies on his merits. TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini interviewed Hackman in Los Angeles and sent this report...
Unfortunately, Husák was lying. Even as he gave those assurances earlier this month to Roland Leroy, a member of the French Communist Politburo, the first large-scale mass arrests since Dubček's downfall were in process. As of last week, more than 200 Czechoslovaks had been rounded up. About 40 were charged with distributing leaflets that denounced last November's national-assembly elections as a rigged farce-which, of course, they were. Many of the others were liberal intellectuals and journalists who supported Dubček's short-lived Springtime of Freedom, which...
...year-old Swiss whiz named Ma-rie-Theres Nadig nipped favored Austrian Annemarie Proell in the women's downhill. After that, the chunky Swiss girl swiveled through a blinding snowstorm and once more bested Annemarie in the giant slalom. In the men's division, Bernhard Russi and Roland Collombin finished one. two in the downhill. In all. the Swiss men won four of the top six positions in the downhill and second and third in the giant slalom...