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...butterfly duel with East German double winner Andrea Pollack (who had meet records in both fly events), coming on the heels of the grueling 400 I.M., revealed just what kind of shape she was in. "I knew that both of the Germans always go out fast and then burn out," she said afterwards, "so I just took it slow for the first 100. I wasn't even tired at that point, but I just made my move too late...
...This whole dispute has made no sense at all," said J.D. Pollack, director of public relations for the Orson Welles Cinema, which has shown midnight movies for seven years. "I do not see how the board members could have been unaware of the fact that movies are shown at midnight in Cambridge and every other major city in the United States...
Summing up the meet, Andrea Pollack, East Germany's former world record holder in the butterfly, said: "They trained hard. We trained hard. But they were just better." Indeed, Pollack herself was beaten by another Nashville phenom, 18-year-old Joan Pennington. Next big test: the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, where the outcome may be far different from what it was in Montreal. The American water sprites have come back...
...National Academy of Sciences found that naval radar operators died no younger than their peers in other jobs. The Environmental Protection Agency points out that 98% of the U.S. population is exposed to less than one microwatt of microwave radiation at any one time. Says State Department Biologist Herbert Pollack: "The 'zapping of America' is just a sensationalist charge." Perhaps so, but in an era of microwaves, their use obviously requires continued research and education...
...second of a series of lectures on "Government: Its Uses and Abuses," Connally, the 1978 Pollack Lecturer, spoke before about 40 people--less than one-tenth of the attendance at his first lecture...