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Surrounded by such specimens, you stand nude for the weigh-in ceremonies and realize what a wreck you are. Then out of the gymnasium waddles some titan of industry looking like a grapefruit in his gold stretch-nylon sweatsuit. "Hi, tiger!" says Spa Director Ward Hutton. "You've got a good sweat going!" Wearily looking up, the titan mutters, "Hello, muscles." Suddenly you don't feel embarrassed any more...
...WARD Imperial Beach, Calif...
Magic Amulets. Many of the rebels are hawk-nosed Toubou bandits from the mountains of Tibesti, where, legend has it, the wind is born. Others are wild-haired southern and eastern Islamic warriors bent on holy war, who carry amulets to ward off bullets. Though some of them wear only loincloths, there are usually a few in each band who wear immaculate white robes and ride Arab stallions. One man in ten has a gun; the rest fight with spears or bows and arrows -for which Garros has considerable respect. "They killed a lion the other day with a poisoned...
...poor fellow sounds like a candidate for the geriatric ward, but it's only Pancho Gonzalez describing how it feels to be 41 and starting his 22nd year of professional tennis. It hurts, obviously. Yet there are compensations. Big compensations. In the opening match of the 1970 season at Madison Square Garden, Gonzalez took on Australia's Rod Laver, 31, the top-ranked pro on the tour for the past four years. The old outpatient not only survived; he outlasted Laver through five grueling sets and walked off with the $10,000 winner-take-all prize money...
...Bess back in 1935. The post-Porgy years have offered little in the way of challenge. There are Gian-Carlo Menotti's works, including The Medium, The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Help, Help, the Globolinks. Also Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Robert Ward's The Crucible and Floyd's Susannah. But on the whole, American opera has been lacking as much in quality as in quantity...