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...relatively slow time of 10.25. (The best U.S. time this year was 10.02 by James Sanford of the University of Southern California.) A Cuban woman, Maria Colon, set an Olympic record in winning the javelin. Jaak Uudmae, 25, of the Soviet Union, won the triple jump, foiling Teammate Victor Saneyev's bid to win four consecutive golds in the event. Saneyev, 34, who first won the triple jump in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, finished second...
...block the election of left-leaning presidential Candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo, who had won a plurality of the popular vote last month and appeared assured of victory in a congressional ballot scheduled for early August. The coup apparently sent both Siles Zuazo and runner-up Candidate Victor Paz Estenssoro into hiding. The junta announced that Gueiler had submitted her resignation; at week's end she and her Cabinet ministers were still believed to be prisoners in the presidential residence...
...those with the time, skill and persistence, home labor can pay off. Victor Sanchez, a Teaneck, N.J., salesman, figured that with just three hours work he could install a new shower by himself-saving $150. Chicago Architect John Dix and his wife estimate that the painting bills alone for the condominium they are refurbishing themselves would...
Rename the parties the Democratic and Republican Leagues. Award the winner of each league a pennant. Declare the winner of the November stretch drive World Series champion (Why be so modest as to call the victor only "President of the United States? "World Series champ"--now that would show the Soviets...
Borg's closest call during his championship reign at Wimbledon came in the first round of the 1978 tournament, when towering (6 ft. 7 in.) Victor Amaya had him on the ropes. Amaya led two sets to one and had a 3-1 lead in the fourth set, but Borg came back to win. Says Amaya: "He looked as if he was spaced out, but all of a sudden he came to life. Sometimes he seems to go into limbo, and then he wakes up before...