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...blur. You can hear the laughter, but the rest is too much to take in at once. Television tunnel-visions the real Olympics, the stuff that goes on in the streets. Stop for a second and two U.S. ski team members walk by. They are celebrities and they flaunt it, waving at everyone, smiling at all the women. There is music blaring from the speed skating rink. There are scalpers everywhere. You just want to know everyone here-all the athletes and athlete lovers and students...
...Offensive shows there's no light at the end of the tunnel; hordes of anti-War students get "Clean for Gene" and the Wisconsin senator-cum-poet's strong showing stuns LBJ into with-drawing from the race. A ghost with a five o'clock shadow named Richard Nixon rises from the dead as other Republicans self-destruct...
...POLISH TUNNEL...
...Poland to see the revered painting of the Black Madonna. But dozens of visitors are injured while crossing the busy road that separates the grounds from the town of Czestochowa. In addition, the government has long wanted to widen the road into an expressway. The solution: a pedestrian tunnel. But the project became another test of wills between Polish church and state. Bishop Stefan Barela complained that the underpass was a plot to cut off the monastery from the town and to "strike a blow at the cult of the Madonna." The tunnel, 30 ft. wide, was far too narrow...
DIED. George Harsh, 72, convicted murderer who was pardoned in 1940 after saving the life of a fellow inmate (by performing an emergency appendectomy) and who helped 80 fellow P.O.W.s to tunnel out of a Nazi prison camp in 1944, an incident that was the basis for the film The Great Escape; after a long illness; in Toronto. In his later years, Harsh became a spokesman against the death penalty, a fate he had only narrowly evaded himself because, he wrote, "I came from a white, wealthy and influential family...