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...Erechtheum. The modern Greek rendering of the play has a venomous and vibrant intimacy that the English translation, transmitted at the City Center on transistor earphones, fails to reflect. In a cast that achieves a triumph of ensemble playing, Clytemnestra is coolly reptilian, and Aegisthus is a strutting upstart of self-aggrandizement who yet meets his implacable doom with dignity...
...satisfaction of sitting in his seat, since the House has adjourned for the year. But in November Lobrin will get another chance to wrestle with the Laurels when he runs for Congress once again. His opponent: Father Jose Jr., who clearly has decided that the defeat of Upstart Lobrin was too important a job to leave in the hands...
...meet sensation at last week's women's A.A.U. swimming championships in Philadelphia was ash-blonde Chris von Saltza, 17, who hoped to climax her competitive career by winning six gold medals. But Chris's retirement party was ruined by a willowy, 16-year-old upstart, Carolyn House of Los Angeles, who beat Chris in the 400-meter freestyle, also won the 200-meter and 1,500-meter races to swim off with three gold medals...
...smash Mel Patton's 1948 world record, oldest on the books. No fewer than 13 pole vaulters scaled 15 ft. California Schoolboy Ulis Williams, 19, chased Veteran Olympic Champion Otis Davis, 28, to the wire in the 440, finished only 0.2 sec. behind him. An unorthodox upstart from Southern California, Bob Avant, dived headfirst over the high-jump bar, somersaulted onto his back with a crunching thud after clearing 7 ft. to beat Boston University's John Thomas. Loose-limbed Ralph Boston of Tennessee State landed only ¼ in. shy of his third 27-ft. broad jump...
...Berry introduced his new paper, designed to "fill the gap" in a Sunday field that seemed all ends and no middle-one that ranged from the cerebral approach of the Sunday Times to the News of the World, with an appeal that is blatantly visceral. At sight of the upstart Telegraph, a paper advertised as being neither "weightier than you wanted" nor "more frivolous than you fancied,'' the frivolous Sunday sheets smiled indulgently. The Sunday Times could not resist predicting that the newcomer might prove useful as a primer for fledgling intellectuals "not yet quite...