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...long jump has been the exclusive bag of two men for so long that the event could have been called "The Ralph & Igor Show." Between them since 1960, the U.S.'s Ralph Boston, 28, and Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 29, have broken and rebroken the world indoor and outdoor records eleven times, won four Olympic medals and dominated every meet they entered. So imagine the impertinence when a slender, 21-year-old sophomore from the University of Texas at El Paso swiped all the action from his elders...
...BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Presenting, from Baltimore, the 1968 edition of "the greatest show on earth," featuring an array of acrobats, trapeze artists, daredevils and clowns and a caravan of animal acts. And in the cen ter ring, Mike Douglas as host...
...feet before she has a chance to sweep the floor. Hosting a new 90-minute daily talk show called This Morn ing on ABC, he has plunged into that grey Sargasso Sea of morning game shows and reruns, and already he's making steady, perceptible waves of laugh ter. There is something vaguely immoral about one-liners at 10:30 a.m., but Cavett has no respect. Amid all the yak, yak, yak on daytime TV, he has snuck in a genuine yuk. And mean while the breakfast dishes are stacking up in the sink like poker chips...
...more than 450 patients receive the transplants, and one reason is that do nor and recipient have to be close to gether, usually in the same medical cen ter, because a kidney begins to deteriorate immediately and will not "keep" more than about four hours...
Could it be, Bindrim wondered, that what he calls a man's "tower of clothes" is not only a safeguard for his privacy, but also a self-imposed constraint to keep out people he fears? If sp, a man who disrobed physically might be bet ter able to disrobe emotionally...