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...languages. In the Olympic Village, the world's finest athletes relaxed in new dormitories that even provided outsize beds (called "De Gaulles'') for the long-legged likes of U.S. basketball players. Through the streets roamed husky, black-jacketed South Africans, slim Burmese in sandals and red sweat suits, and Russians handing out bronze pins engraved with space Luniks. Long after midnight, officials found a Liberian marathoner, stop watch in hand, patiently plodding mile after mile. "It's quiet now," he explained, "and cool." In their practice sessions, tough Pakistanis played the American schoolgirl sport of field...
Dressed in his three-piece suit and heavy cordovan shoes, Mr. Rondelle sizzles in the Cambridge summer. The sweat and heat of his Harvardman's body, however, are nothing compared with what goes on in his button-down mind. The Harvard tradition from which he descends is that of narrow-minded, straight-laced New England Puritanism, with its inane and unhealthy repressions...
...Sweating It Out. As mediators shuffled between the two teams, Rockefeller frequently popped in on both sides to let them know that he was watching. He had also hinted that if the strike was not settled, he might recall the state legislature to ask for special powers to show the Long Island how to run a railroad. Neither side wanted that. At midmorning Rockefeller slipped away long enough to have a cyst removed from under his right eye (six stitches) at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, came back to order ham and turkey sandwiches for all, then settled...
Most professional golfers cannot take the tension of watching their competitors hole out in the final stages of a big tournament. They sweat it out in the clubhouse locker room. But as husky Joyce Ziske clumped confidently onto the 18th green at the Worcester, Mass. Country Club last week needing only a 5-ft. putt to tie the U.S. Women's Open, a nervous, long-legged blonde moved to the edge of the crowd and prayed silently: "Miss it! Please miss...
...Heat Exhaustion. One severe form results from spending several months in hot, moist climates. Marked by fatigue, headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations and-paradoxically-inability to sweat, except on the face, palms and soles. Moving back to a temperate climate (or into air-conditioned quarters) is the answer, but the sweating mechanism may be knocked out for months, leaving continued danger of heat stroke...