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...increasing numbers and with greater gusto than ever before. Not that most of them want to compete with boys; the emphasis is still largely on single-sex athletic programs, with the opportunities for women expanded. In Dallas, almost 100 girls from six to 16 turned out last fall to spar with one another in a five-year-old program known as Missy Junior Gloves. At the University of Washington, 80 coeds -a record number-signed up for women's crew...
...does not play favorites. Tabarly, a navy commander, was barely halfway to Capetown when his titanium mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...
Dick Cavett Show. Muhammad Ali and Smokin' Joe Frazier spar verbally in a 90-minute warm-up for their scheduled Jan. 28 heavyweight bout at the Garden in New York. Cavett referees. Ch. 5. 12:30 a.m. Color...
...trust her impulses; it planted a sentry in her brain to doublethink her every move. And she never bade him exit. Now she trusts herself so little that she's glued herself into the groove of her problems. She gives rein to the antagonistic thoughts that spar in her brain and lock there like chain mail. And look, will you, at what she's done--she has used analysis in precisely the same way that she uses men: as a crutch for her own queasy personal indentity to steady itself and steer by. And worse, she doesn't know that...
...special arena. He is awfully good at summitry. He was across the table from another tough leader who has knocked his way to the top and knows the destructibility of politicians and their dreams. The press and the public were far enough away not to bother, and Nixon could spar with Brezhnev even while signaling that as a member of the summit fraternity he understood Brezhnev's problems back home...