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Australia's Mike Wenden surprised everyone by splashing to victory in both the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints. And Felipe Munoz, an unsung, 17-year-old prep-schooler from Mexico City, gave the host nation its first gold medal of the Games when he edged out Russia's world record holder, Vladimir Kosinsky, in the 200-meter breaststroke. Yet Debbie Meyer, a 16-year-old from Sacramento, Calif., singlehandedly balanced out those losses by winning the women's 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyles, despite a strained ankle and a bad case...
There is no such thing as a spontaneous campaign appearance. Every candidate has his advance men, the harried unsung experts who go from town to town to make as sure as humanly possible that the crowds will be out, the schedule smooth, the publicity favorable. Here is TIME Correspondent Ken Danforth's portrait of one of them...
...little later every day until one day you never got up at all. Were you the guy who spent most of his waking hours in the Coop Record Department, waiting for the new release? Or did you sweat all day over a hot mimeographing machine, the unsung hero of the student activists...
...little later everyday until one day you never got up at all. Were you the guy who spent most of his waking hours in the Coop Record Department, waiting for the new release? Or did you sweat all day over a hot mimeographing machine, the unsung hero of the student activists...
Chicken Agents. The justification for the Patsy Awards is clear enough. Every year animals appear in about 20,000 roles in the movies and on TV. They act their hearts out, but they go largely unsung. There were 12,000 horse appearances in 1967 alone, most of them "N.D.s" (nondescripts, or extras), some of them cast horses (Bonanza's Lorne Greene rides a cast horse), the rest stunt horses who can rear up, buck, play dead and, for all anybody knows, kiss and dance the boogaloo. In the remaining animal roles last year were 21 bears, six crayfish...