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...SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Hedley Donovan, L.H.D., editor-in-chief, Time...
...good thing. If he were 100% efficient, there is no telling how fast he could run. Three times last winter Hines tied the indoor world record of 5.9 sec. in the 60-yd. dash. Last month, in the 100-yd. dash at Houston's Southwestern Athletic Conference meet, he got off to a so-so start, still was timed in 9.1 sec.-equaling the world record set by Bob Hayes in 1963. Two weeks later in Modesto, Calif., he was again a little slow getting out of the blocks, but tied the world mark...
...When there is chaos in China," says an old Chinese proverb, "it strikes Szechwan first; when there is peace, it comes to Szechwan first." Last week chaos ruled in the southwestern prov ince of Szechwan. Peking wall posters reported that an extraordinary - and almost unbelievable - total of 10,000 persons had been killed or wounded in four weeks of fighting involving ma chine guns, hand grenades and poisoned drinking water. Among the casualties were 200 Maoists drowned in the Yangzte River on the way to a rally, the victims of Red Guards who had defected from Mao's Cultural...
...Lesson in Breathing. The setting for their studies was pure French romantic; the spired Chateau de Mercues, a medieval castle recently converted to a luxury hotel. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the sleepy little town of Cahors in southwestern France near Héreil's country home. The ten-week, six-hour-a-day course (with a tab of $3,000 plus the price of meals for each executive and his wife), was something of a smorgasbord. It mixed Europe's theoretical pedagogy with the case-study methods of U.S. business schools. French and U.S. instructors, including...
...tornadoes inflicted heavy fatalities in Oak Lawn, a southwestern suburb and in Belvidere, 65 miles northwest of Chicago. One person was killed in Chicago and another in suburban Stone Park...