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They succeeded all too well. During the week-long oddball Olympics, contestants in 75 events set eleven new world records. John Parker, 24, made himself a 1975 edition Guinness notable by downing 300 goldfish, 75 more than the previous oldie goldie. Rick Sumner, 14, polished off 20 doughnuts in 9 min. 59 sec., beating the old record of 20 in 15 min. John McKinney, 17, and Rick Sackett, 25, each crammed 52 cigars into their mouths and kept them alight for 30 sec. (v. the previous record of 28 lit for 30 sec.). Another titlist, Scott Case, managed to smoke...
Locally, the week will include neighborhood canvassing, the sending of a delegation of Cambridge citizens to area A&P headquarters and a week-long picketing of the Boston area's "most successful" A&P outlet in Roslindale, John E. McHale, a member of the Cambridge Committee to Support Farm Workers, said yesterday...
...this night different from all other nights?" a child would ask at the Seder, the ritual meal on the first night of the week-long feast. Why the matzo? Why the bitter herbs? Then, as the family followed the rites set down in the Haggadah (literally, a "telling"), the old story would unfold: the bitter slavery under the Pharaoh and God's scourging of Egypt with plagues until the children of Israel were set free. And always, that last terrible plague, when the wrath of God slew the first-born of every Egyptian but passed over the houses...
City for Conquest [1940]. The first installment in a week-long WKBG tribute to James Cagney. (See Monday, 9:30 p.m.) Ch. 56, 11:25 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
...week Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev sent a warm greeting to President Nixon. "Flying close to the shores of the United States of America," radioed Brezhnev, "I express my very best wishes to you, Mr. President, to the Government and the people of the U.S. I am confident that relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. will continue to develop to the benefit of our peoples and in the interests of international security and peace." Two hours later, Brezhnev's blue and white Ilyushin-62 jet landed in Havana, and the Russian leader began a week-long visit...