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Mark Spitz of Indiana, perhaps the best all-round swimmer in the world, tightened his stranglehold on the 200-yd. butterfly, breaking the American and NCAA record in the trials and going on to shatter that mark hours later with a 1:48.48 clocking...
These are precisely the stereotyped categories that Barbara Loden, actress and film maker, set out to shatter in Wanda, a lowbudget, highly autobiographical effort released last year. Says Miss Loden, who wrote, directed and starred in the picture: "Wanda was the prototype of the unliberated wom an. She had hardly any overtly redeeming qualities. Usually a girl like that would be fixed up to be more at tractive or be made witty. But I wanted to show a real woman from a certain milieu of our society. All my films will probably be fictionalized sociological studies about women and their...
...behalf of social theories but to serve people and if we disturb society's equilibrium, we are really upsetting the lives of individuals. We had better be sure we are deeply dedicated to pushing on for a better world to replace the old one we try to shatter...
This winter, there are 1.4 million snowmobiles abroad in the land, and the number is growing fast. Nature lovers, insisting that the little vehicles cause damage to the environment and shatter the tranquillity of wilderness regions, have begun pressing for anti-snowmobile legislation. But prospects for effective regulation are poor; the likelihood of an outright ban is nil. Now, however, a study by a Michigan State University professor suggests a more subtle way to deal with the proliferation of the abominable snowmobile (as its foes call it). If it is made thoroughly safe to operate, devotees will get bored...
...took the Crimson 2 minutes and 9 seconds to shatter both illusions at the Tiger's Gothic ice house. By that time, Dave Hynes and Bob Havern had scored within 27 seconds of each other, and Harvard was well on its way to a devastating 9-0 triumph that did much to restore any confidence that the team had lost during the past two weeks...