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Against the Grease. Mary already has more records than any other lady marathoner, and now she has set her heart on the Sea of Galilee, Lake Geneva, Loch Ness, New Zealand's Cook Strait and, of course, the English Channel. Tall (5 ft. 91 in.) and lissome (137 Ibs.), Mary is a featherweight compared with most Channel swimmers, who pile on fat as protection against the chilly water. She spurns the traditional coating of axle grease, uses heavy-grade Vaseline instead: it is lighter, more water-repellent. And when she is in the water, her thoughts are miles away...
Once every two years American Airlines takes over a posh hotel and holds a banquet for its Kiwis, appropriately named for the New Zealand bird that cannot fly. American's Kiwis are former stewardesses who quit to marry or retired gracefully at 32, the age at which American now grounds its girls. Not all of American's stewardesses want to turn into Kiwis. Last week seven blue-suited American stewardesses, all approaching 32 or past it, sparked a labor dispute by insisting that a girl's wings should not be clipped because of age. "Do I look...
Died. Tupua Tamasese Mea A Ole, 55, joint head of state (with Malietoa Tanumafili II) of Western Samoa. Polynesia's first, and so far only, independent nation, a shrewd and urbane politician, who negotiated his South Pacific island country's peaceful 1961 breakaway from New Zealand; of cancer; in Western Samoa...
...These were the times at which jaunty Jim Beatty, 28, the best U.S. distance runner and holder of the world indoor record for the mile, was to complete each segment of a precisely planned assault on the indoor two-mile record (8 min. 34.4 sec.) held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg...
...with life? Were there, as some romanticists confidently expected, forests of intelligent, moving trees? Or would Mariner prove the accuracy of some of the glummer theories of radio astronomy -that Venus is a barren ball covered with a dull layer of dust? Last week JPL's boss, New Zealand-born Physicist William Hayward Pickering, brought his Mariner team to Washington to deliver a batch of decoded data containing the first series of answers...