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...Olympic champion's hero. The gold medals he won in track and field in 1936 meant something to every athlete. The Olympics that year were held in Nazi Germany, and Jesse Owens, U.S. entrant, won four gold medals in the 100-meter, 200-meter, broad jump and 400-meter relay...
...times they are always achanging, and with them the strategies of propriety-and the generalissimas. The latest entrant in the annals of etiquette is Charlotte Ford, 41, elder daughter of Henry II and former wife of Stavros Niarchos, 72, the Greek shipping tycoon. Ford's Book of Modern Manners (Simon & Schuster; $14.95) honestly and sometimes humorously addresses the battle order. Meeting Someone New in a Public Place. How to Be a Popular Guest (or Host). Sharing a Bathroom. The Length of the Cocktail Hour...
...wonderland. To the casual eye, it appeared that the 13th Olympic Winter Games were over and done with. Yet one final, unlisted event was under way well before the last athletes had straggled out of Olympic Village. The happening: the great downhill plunge from celebrity to obscurity. The sole entrant: Lake Placid, N.Y. (pop. 2,700), U.S.A...
...young cellist named Nathaniel Rosen, then 18, journeyed from California to Moscow to compete in the famous International Tchaikovsky Competition. Held every four years, it is one of the world's most demanding and prestigious tests of talent in violin, cello, piano and voice. Rosen, the youngest cello entrant, made it to the finals but did not place. The three-week series of eliminations left him exhausted. "I'd love to go back to the Soviet Union," he concluded, "but probably not as a competitor...
...kibbutz leaders have been talking to each other secretly, in Hebrew, about what is going on; but as a recent entrant to the kibbutz, I am not told what is taking place. My questions go unanswered; there is no concept of the public's right to know in war-torn Israel...