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...with the dizzying athletic kaleidoscope on the TV screen last week. Split vision, in fact, is almost a requirement these days for following all the bouncing balls of big-time sports. With leagues merging and teams multiplying like so many amoebae, games that once were seasonal are now practically year-round affairs. Pro basketball teams alone, whose number has grown from ten to 27 in the past five years, will play nearly 1,300 games in a seemingly endless season that stretches from September well into May. After football completes its rounds of playoffs, bowl and all-star games...
...Bundestag in 1957 from a strongly Catholic district and achieved the cabinet post of Minister for All-German Affairs in 1962. Married, and the father of one daughter, he has been known as a flashy man about Bonn who drives fast cars, collects modern art, maintains a year-round suntan and keeps trim with daily swims. No longer quite so cocky as he used to be, Barzel is still extremely self-confident, but he knows that he must change his image to win the popular support that he now lacks...
...year-round islanders, and some of the 250 summer regulars, saw the imminent demise of the school leading to the end of their island. The nearest mainland classes, where island teen-agers already go, are a 90-minute ferry ride to Portland. "We couldn't put our young ones on the 6:15 morning ferry and ask them to make that trip," says Lobsterman Jim Seymour, father of two grade school kids...
...This year more than ever, performance on the southern trip will determine the make-up of the team." Barnaby said. He attributes the team's lack of success on the trip to the edge in consistency which the Southern teams get from year-round practice. "We would give most of them a good match later on in the season." he said...
Albert, an Amherst graduate and Yale Drama dropout, has directed "The Proposition," Cambridge's long-running improvisational review, since June 1969. He plans to operate the Charles on a year-round basis in an effort to resurrect the theatre from its current moribundity...