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...inquest into the U.S. defeat tended to overlook perhaps the most significant fact. The Russians have simply gotten better in recent years. They improved measurably in the sprints and pole vault, and regained their superiority in the distances. And, as usual, their women beat the less-experienced U.S. women. Brutus Hamilton was only the first U.S. coach to lose a meet to the Russians...
Some suggested the other day that "James Baldwin says it, and Ken Clark proves it." It turned out that his copy of Dark Ghetto had never gotten past the coffee table plateau. Because Clark does "say it" when he talks about racial problems...
...tenor partner as "having a resonance chamber where his brain used to be." Metropolitan Opera Soprano Teresa Stratas takes a feminine view: "Stupidity, no. Egomania, yes. Tenors seem stupid because they are so fully absorbed in themselves. Sopranos -they all have to be pretty smart cookies to have gotten where they are." Tenor Richard Tucker, in a cheerily frivolous reaction that goes far to refute the thesis, comments: "Since tenors usually carry their fat elsewhere, you can be sure they are not fatheads. And besides, the mere fact that there's vibration in a tenor's cranial cavity...
...such questions, no answers were forthcoming, for U.S. public relations officers fell silent after some initial muttering about the plane going astray "in bad weather." Later, it was suggested that the Telex line that was to relay the flight plan was out of order, and the French might have gotten a garbled version. This did not alter the fact that there is a blanket prohibition against foreign air photos of French soil without permission of the government; even when the U.S. wanted photos of the American cemetery at Ste.-Mère-Eglise last year, it had to get approval...
...indeed, fired last month. However, he had neglected to explain the DCVL board's authorization to the organization's steering committee, which has overall responsibility for the DCVL's campaign. Reese said later that he had been "going to" tell the steering committee but had not gotten around...