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...record number of 7,000 athletes from a record number of 85 countries, spectators spent a record $3,200,000 for tickets before the first event was held. Among the athletes were scores of strong-willed and strong-muscled individualists, men and women with the zeal to toil through tedious years of training and the control to reach their peak in the brief, intense flurry of com petition. Even in such a high-caliber group, a dignified U.S. Negro named Rafer Johnson stood...
...intimate friend of Castro explains it, the recommendation of mental rest stems from Castro's current mood. Castro, says the friend, has entered a period of mysticism, and is eager to withdraw from the day-to-day world of misunderstanding, defecting friends and tedious government. He wants to retreat into the hills to write poetry (he has tried his hand at it and does well) and meditate. "I am leader of an American revolution." Castro told his friend recently, "not chief of a small country's government." But the mood is plainly related to his physical ills...
...have been informed that important cast changes, necessitated by illness shortly before the opening, caused the performance I saw to lack the smoothness which could otherwise have been expected. But even assuming that the performance is not now as deathly tedious as it was on Tuesday night, it is hard to believe that it could have improved to a point that would justify inviting anyone to see it except the mothers of the performers...
...long campaign is debilitating, tedious and expensive for the candidates. "Obviously a year of perambulating, incessant exposure is exhausting,'' says Adlai Stevenson. "You grow weary, frustrated and bored. Any man who has listened to himself several times daily since February is not likely to inspire his countrymen in October." In the five months between New Hampshire and Los Angeles. Front Runner Jack Kennedy will have traveled an estimated 65,000 air miles, spent at least $700,000 and delivered 350 speeches-an exhausting pace even for a relatively young candidate, and a whopping bankroll even for a millionaire...
...Vanguard; $3.95), recalls the fact that, by some twist of mind or diet, the inhabitants of Trinidad speak English in a way that startles and delights the ear. They have this in common with nonprofessional speakers of Irish English (the barroom Irish of Manhattan's Third Avenue are tedious professionals) and with the talkers of Elizabethan England, if their playwrights bear true witness. In writing about such magnificent lingoists, color threatens to overwhelm shape, as it very nearly did in Naipaul's roguish first novel, The Mystic Masseur. In these sketches about Port of Spain, he lets shape...