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...board) to try Gallwey's most eminent competition. By California standards, it is just down the road, at Coto de Caza near Laguna Beach, a 5,000-acre mission-cum-tennis college presided over by Vic Braden, 47. Though Braden bears a faint resemblance to a vest-pocket Buddha and has a graduate degree in psychology, his methods epitomize two current hopes of Western civilization?a sense of humor and trust in technology...
Figures such as Buddha and Gandhi have been removed from us, but now one is palpably among us, and the opportunity is thrilling...
Unless you like the new Buddha-ized version of formerly great drummer Norman Connors. Like other back-up men to Pharoah Sanders, Connors had a strong reputation as a hard driving drummer. But Buddha has apparently taken that away from him. At least he doesn't jive around with that disco stuff...
...turning into an instant Edith Piaf. Gymnast Shun Fujimoto's kamikaze dismount with a broken knee. The victory lap after the 400-meter hurdles when Gold Medal Winner Ed Moses and Silver Medalist Mike Shine loped round the track in joyous exhaustion. Weightlifter Vasili Alexeyev looking like the Buddha meditating over 561 I=lbs. of iron...
...Brando a Buddha? Unlikely. Not the pugnacious, trigger-tempered, tempestuous Marlon Brando who broke a photographer's jaw three years ago, seduced and abandoned nearly as many women as Don Juan, insulted and scorned more than a few of the world's notables. Not long ago, while snorkeling in his lagoon, he punched a marauding whitetip shark in the snout. The shark fled...