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Visible Disappointments. The celebrations in Nairobi featured a marathon run by Ethiopia's Olympic Winner Abebe Bikila, feathered tribal dancers, and Guinea's Ballets Africains, which offered only one disappointment-the girls wore brassieres. For all the festive folderol, Kenyans were less than delirious-they are waiting for the jam in jamhuri. A year of independence has brought more problems than prosperity. Kenyatta remains one of Black Africa's more responsible statesmen, and he retains some ties with the West-in one case literally: Kenya's latest postage stamp shows Jomo wearing his old school...
Seventy-five Cliffies swam 187 miles in an eight-day Radcliffe Swimming Marathon, which ended Wednesday in a frantic last-minute splashing melee between the South and East House teams...
South emerged as winner with a total of 74 miles swum by 20 girls. East came in five miles behind to experience its first marathon defeat in five years. North House trailed with its 24 representatives churning 44 miles...
...Colombian gold cigar box encrusted with emeralds (he does not smoke), and a Uruguayan whip appropriately inscribed, "Strike hard against the enemies of France." The return received dutiful top coverage by the state-owned television network, although the French had long since become bored with the general's marathon Latin solo. By now they were far more preoccupied with the Chinese bomb and the change in the Kremlin's management. In the dailies, the news of De Gaulle's return was even being crowded by Labor's victory in Britain...
Also on the schedule were the 1500 meters (with America's Dyrol Burleson and New Zealand's Peter Snell the top entrants); the marathon (with Buddy Edelen and 10,000 meter winner Billy Mills entered for the U.S.); and three relay events (with the U.S. favored in all three...