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People were beginning to whisper about Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 28. Two years ago he was the world's No. 1 race-car driver-the Grand Prix cham pion, winner of a record seven races. In 1964, it looked like the same story all over again when Clark won three out of the first five Grand Prix races. Then everything went wrong...
Trouble was, the secret nonballot failed to produce a winner-which, under the U.N. charter, must receive two-thirds of the votes. A second "consul tation" was called for, and a third, but although Jordan was unofficially ahead, Mali proved unsinkable. In the end, Quaison-Sackey forged a compromise: the two nations would split the two-year term, with Jordan seated first. The deal was approved "without objection," and Quaison-Sackey dismissed the Assembly until...
...make things more interesting, the surfers were required to follow a zigzag course, much like a slalom ski run. Judges deducted points for such infractions as "bottom turning"-cutting in front of another surfer knifing down the wave. The surprise winner: Honolulu Schoolboy Fred Hemmings Jr., 18, who became surfing's youngest world champion ever by riding three waves 600 yds. or so, tucking himself out of sight in "the pipe" (the fastest, most dangerous part of the wave, where it rolls over and down) to gain speed, sliding around the buoys without losing "the green,"-the unbroken portion...
Married. Janet Gaynor, 56, winner of Hollywood's first Oscar in 1928 for her performances in Seventh Heaven, Sunrise and Street Angel; and Paul Gregory, 44, producer (The Caine Mutiny, Court-Martial, Night of the Hunter); she for the second time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...
Providence, the winner of last season's ECAC Tourney, and St. Lawrence, the runner-up, have surprised the East by getting off to such bad starts, but either could rebound. Cornell and R.P.I. are currently the likeliest candidates for the last two berths