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...fact, even the most skeptical of Holland's allied commanders admit that the Dutch soldiers perform as well as spick-and-span units from other nations. When the Soviet Ambassador to The Netherlands chided Defense Minister Henk Vredeling on his soldiers' long hair, Vredeling replied that Samson also had long hair-and nobody wondered whether he could fight...
This fall, Editor Jack Samson canceled the column, ostensibly because the magazine wanted a "modification in the editorial approach." Says he: "I've already hired someone else with an even more strident and stronger stand on conservation. I just don't think Mike Frome did a very good job." CBS officials say that they knew nothing of the change until Frome's supporters started to sound off, and that the parent company bore the writer no grudge...
Frome and some of his partisans insist that Stream's waters are murkier than that. Frome claims that after Samson was made editor in 1972, he was told not to "name names." Frome says that Samson, for example, refused to publish his criticism of John McGuire, chief of the Forest Service. Frome insists: "They want to play it safe and steady...
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...shotput, another powerful American will be missing, but not by choice. Randy Matson, gold medalist in 1968, was nudged off the U.S. team by George Woods, Al Feuerbach and Brian Oldfield. Feuerbach, who has hair like Samson's and a mustache like Fu Manchu's, releases the shot with a banzai-type yell. Oldfield competed at the U.S. trials in a brief, floral-patterned swimsuit and a low-cut fishnet jersey. If these Americans fail to stir the Munich stadium crowds, West German Uwe Beyer almost certainly will. After winning the bronze medal in the hammer throw...