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...Meredith took the 100 freestyle for the third Crimson sweep, and Henry Whelchel led Al Lincoln to the finish in the backstroke. The only race in which a Brown swimmer beat a Harvard swimmer at all was the breastroke. Harvard's Bob Corris swam by Brown's Tom Wilder and Nick Whitlam took third for the varsity...
...Makaha are spawned by violent Pacific storms, often 2,000 miles or more from Hawaii. On a really big day they may top 25 ft. Even the 15-footers provide a hair-raising test as they come rumbling over the reef. But there are days when Makaha is no wilder than Waikiki-as 441 contestants from as far away as Peru and South Africa found out when they converged on Makaha for the International Surfing Championships, the World Series of the sport. For five days anxious surfers vainly scanned the horizon: Finally, on the day before Christmas, 15-ft. waves...
Kiss Me, Stupid. The careers of Producer-Director Billy Wilder and his favorite collaborator, Writer I.A.L. Diamond, can be traced in a curve that peaked in such frantic, funny, wickedly knowing comedies as Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, plunged downward in Irma La Douce, and now lands in the murk of Kiss Me, Stupid, a jape that seems to have scraped its blue-black humor off the floor of a honky-tonk nightclub...
Thanks to Director Wilder, Stupid is professionally shrewd and zippy, and flaunts a kind of vulgar integrity. Not only does everyone talk sex; everyone does something about it. That alone might prove refreshing in a Hollywood farce, except that Wilder isn't celebrating sex as a gloriously human temptation; he is exploiting it as a commodity -and he wears a lascivious grin where his satirical smile ought to be. The result, spelled out in dialogue that sounds like a series of gamy punch lines, is one of the longest traveling-salesman stories ever committed to film. Like all dirty...
After 30 years in the political wilder ness, West German Socialists excitedly glimpsed the Promised Land - victory in next year's national elections. The chances are still limited, but they are better than ever before...