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Buoyed by impressive sweeps in the butterfly, the diving, the 100-yard freestyle and the 200 yard breaststroke, Harvard's swim team scuttled Navy 57-38 at the IAB Saturday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Down Navy By Sweeping 4 Events | 12/12/1966 | See Source »

...limpest clichés, however, are the leading characters. Wild Bill Hickok (Don Murray) is presented as just one more bashful boob who would sooner face hot lead than cool lips. "Hit's easier to swim up Niagry Falls," he whines, "than hit is to understand a woman." Calamity Jane (Abby Dalton) comes off as a stereotype tomboy who looks like Doris Day wearing saddlebags but sounds like Martha Raye without a mute. "Beeeeyullllll," she squeeee-yulllllls, "yore huh-urrrrrt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Handling the Stock | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...face clouded. "That is Rockefeller's word," snapped Romney. "I associate it with someone else who hasn't fared too well with consensus. I think we need leadership." With that, Romney went off to Suite 701 in the Dorado Beach Hotel, changing into plaid trunks for a swim. When he finally did phone Rockefeller, 90 minutes after arriving, he suggested that they wait until the morrow for their meeting. "I never talk politics on Sunday," he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Consensus by Any Other Name | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...Advancement of Colored People, the boy wants to know whether the Italians have anything like it. "Sure," replies Cooper. "We have the Mothers and Fathers' Italian Association-the M.A.F.I.A." Another case in point is the rash of Polish jokes ("Why won't they let a Pole swim in Lake Michigan? Because he'll leave a ring"), which began almost underground but now venture into the light. Explains Comic Phyllis Diller: "If it's too close to the truth, it isn't funny. The Poles are far removed from ignorance and dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEW MELTING POT | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Elsewhere, the students swim, or study algebra, or high jump. They even bowl, with the aid of ten little bulbs that warm up to indicate which pins remain standing after the first roll...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Ringing Lights: Visit to Perkins | 12/1/1966 | See Source »

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