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...Although your articles on the Olympics were frustratingly short, they did provide insight as to the thrill and drama of the Games. But while you gave credit to the dominance of the American swim team, the name of Charlie Hickcox was absent. Fast becoming the Yanks' premier male swimmer, Hickcox grabbed three golds and a silver medal in Mexico. He annexed the 200-and 400-meter individual medley crowns and swam to a second place in the 100-meter backstroke. He also led off America's world-record-setting medley relay team. Hickcox now holds world records...
...Conner had been absent without leave from Fort Bragg, N.C. since September 14. His sanctuary at M.I.T., the longest ever held, began on October...
...ornate Hotel Majestic for the 28th time since the peace talks began on May 13 and exchanged the usual insults. The real news, as elsewhere throughout the current thrust toward peace, lay several strata beneath the surface. The No. 2 man on the U.S. team, Cyrus Vance, was absent. He was said to be working at the American embassy, but there was speculation that he was off somewhere continuing secret talks with Hanoi's Colonel Ha Van Lau, his opposite number...
...going down the Mississippi on a raft or over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Ordinarily too, the ovum travels singly, like Lewis or Clark, in the kind of existential loneliness which Norman Mailer usually admires. One might say that the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd of commuters from the 5:15. The physiological contrast of apathy and enthusiasm might reasonably shift to one of individualism and conformity...
...decided to appeal Streeter's ruling. He is afraid that if the probate court turns him down, Scott may be sent to another family. It seems a reasonable fear, especially since Judge Streeter had occasion to remark that "I act as probate judge when the regular judge is absent...