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Joseph Maher plays the vile braggart Parolles very close to farce. Dressed in hideous patchwork garb with a ring in his left ear, he exaggerates his hat flourishes, sticks himself with his sword, and at one point makes his exit like a javelin-thrower in slow motion. But why must he change Shakespeare's "an idle lord" to "a foolish lord"? Once started, there is no end to such idle tinkering...
...possible exception of show business, no other field today is as fully integrated as sports. But while the sport establishment likes to congratulate itself on the increasing numbers of blacks in its ranks, black athletes react with a resounding "so what." Says Harry Edwards, the militant former discus thrower who almost succeeded in organizing a black athletes' boycott of the 1968 Olympics: "Sports reeks of the same racism that corrupts other areas of our society...
With the exception of the shot put and discus, both weakened by last year's graduation. Harvard is strong in the field events. Long jumper Noel Hare finished third in the NCAA's last month, and javelin thrower Richie Szaro holds the New England intercollegiate record...
Boll's victims include an orphaned boy allowed to die because a doctor is off selling drugs to the black market, a veteran who becomes the human outline for a knife thrower and finds the "courage born of despair," a derelict in a Communist country who is arrested for breaking the law by wearing a sad face. These are the legion of the lost unable to cope with either the wartime guilt or the moral vacuum created partly by the astounding material success of Germany's postwar economy...
...addition to being a walking contradiction in terms-a Met slugger -Jones has another proud distinction. He is one of the few players in major-league history to be a righthanded batter and a lefthanded thrower. He came by his aberration honestly, while growing up in Mobile, Ala., the town that also produced Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey, Billy Williams and Met Teammate Tommie Agee. "We played stickball when we were kids," he explains, "and there was this porch on the first-base side. If you hit the ball up there it was lost, and it wasn...