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...sight of the Crimson in just the second event when its All-American sophomore. Tony Corbisiero, found himself swamped in the 1000-yd. free by a Harvard threesome of Ted Chappell, Courtney Roberts and Larry Countryman. Chappell, also one of the aquamen's premier butterflyers, switched on his smooth stroke at the very beginning, took the lead he never relinquished, and cruised into the finish...
...converted first-floor library that serves as the senior citizen Friendship Center. Jerry Jessick, 17, center on the school's football team, and Classmate Kevin Gilhuly, 16, have scheduled a weekly game of Scrabble with Florence Stewart, 73, who has been slowed down a bit by a stroke. Says Jessick, admiringly: "She's very competitive." Other students watch and kibitz at games of "cutthroat cribbage" played after lunch by Martin Bethke, 86, and Milford Howell, 66. Says Butch Hogan, 16: "I'm just learning...
...only Mae West was able to make a whole career out of the leer and the wink. Her voluptuous figure was as familiar as the Statue of Liberty's. When she died last week at the age of 87, from complications that developed after she suffered a stroke several months ago, America lost a long-enduring symbol of an age when s-e-x was something that could stir laughs as well as libidos...
DIED. Marcello Caetano, 74, Prime Minister of Portugal for six years before being ousted by a military coup in 1974; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Appointed Prime Minister in 1968, when longtime Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke, Caetano made some abortive moves toward liberalization and tried vainly to preserve Portugal's eroding colonial empire by continuing costly wars hi Mozambique and Angola before his dismissal by the junta of General Antonio de Spinola...
DIED. Sheldon Warren Cheney, 94, art historian and theater critic who helped define the modernist movement in American drama in the 1920s and '30s that was exemplified by such figures as Playwright Eugene O'Neill and Designer Robert Edmond Jones; of a stroke, in Berkeley, Calif. He founded Theatre Arts magazine in 1916 (it discontinued publication in 1964). His books include The New Movement in the Theater (1914), Expressionism in Art (1934) and The Story of Modern...