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Sing Along with U Thant. In the capital, where a woman of such exalted station rarely escapes the scratch of a well-aimed shiv, Lady Bird has come off remarkably unscathed. Some people wonder if she is a sort of self-created Galatea, playing the role of a politician's perfect wife, the possessor of a flawless mediocrity that generates warm admiration but no scorching envy. Brother Tony says that "Lady Bird has been in public life and in the public eye for so long that she has learned to be circumspect, even when...
...muscle. But they were hardly missed when 200-Meter Man Henry Carr obligingly boomed home first in the 100, then in the 200, finally ran a leg on a 1,600-meter relay team that won by 70 yds. Milers Tom O'Hara and Dyrol Burleson had to scratch from the 1,500-meter run; so Jim Grelle got to tick off that one. Half a dozen others were walking wounded: California Schoolteacher Mike Larrabee forgot an injured pancreas (courtesy of a student's accidental judo chop) long enough to breeze through the 400 meter; World Discus Champ...
...taking him to the hospital have four flat tires and run into a brick wall that's holding nuclear warheads and TNT. And if he should survive that, let him be thrown into a patch of wild dogs that's suffering from flea-itis and may he scratch himself insane. When he gets to the hospital, let the doctor be a junkie with a gorilla on his back and an orangoutang in his room. Let the hospital catch on fire, and every fire hydrant from Nova Scotia to wherever he was born be froze up. Let muddy water...
...could either collect or deliver, Julian had to check into the very place where the U.N. detained him two years ago: a hospital now run by the Danes. As the colonel explained, rolling up the leg of his elegant grey trousers: "I go through five wars without a scratch. But coming down here in the plane a Coke bottle falls off the stewardess' tray and wrecks my knee. If I weren't a darky, you'd notice the discoloration...
Clark escaped mostly because his car was too slow. Driving a new model Lotus-Climax that had been wrecked last April and practically rebuilt from scratch, Jimmy was having engine trouble, was running on only seven cylinders. After four sputtering laps, a mechanic waved a message board that read "Surt -20." With 16 laps to go, Ferrari's John Surtees already had a 20-sec. lead...