Log of a Lonely Winner: 3,000 Miles in 26 Days; 1968 Winner of Singlehanded Transatlantic Race

WASHINGTON -- "Th' Prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th' people," observed Mr. Dooley, "Th' Vice-Prisidincy is th' next highest an' th' lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f'r it, but it's a kind iv disgrace. It's like writin' anonymous letters."  

Agnew: 'Thank You, Mr. President'

The United States Golf Association elected a new chief yesterday -- P. J. Boatwright Jr., a man who has a three-stroke handicap but is not a member of any golf club.  

BOATWRIGHT GETS TOP U.S.G.A. POST, SUCCEEDING DEY; As Executive Director He Will control Amateurs -Hardin Is Re-Elected

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Jan. 25 -- It did everything but snow. In golf that was erratic as the weather, the Crosby proamateur tournament continued through the second round today as a three-way tie developed for the 36-hole lead at 140.  

THREE SHARE LEAD IN GOLF ON COAST; Archer, Johnson, Douglass Tied at 140 in 2d Round Marred by Winds, Rain

The data programed into the computer contained numerical values, from a high of 0 to a low of 5, for the qualities that make good college football players good professionals. They included blocking, tackling and receiving abilities, speed, quickness, reactions, toughness, mental alertness, personal character and an over-all judgment as to the ability to succeed among the pros.  

Computer Rates Draft Stars; Computer Calls Pro Draft Plays

Amb Lodge urges early release of POWs, s at 1st plenary session of expanded peace talks, Paris

FIRM BUFFER ZONE IS URGED BY LODGE AT VIETNAM TALKS; He Terms a Demilitarized Area the 'First Practical Move Toward Peace'

Most of the evening was pleasant for the New York Knickerbockers last night at Madison Square Garden as they drubbed the Milwaukee Bucks, 113-96, for the fifth time in five meetings this season.  

KNICKS TOP BUCKS 5TH TIME IN ROW; May, a Rookie, Excels for New York -- Jackson to Be Out Two More Weeks

Archdiocese educ dept sec Msgr Kelly asks 200 parish priests to suggest 4 candidates each for local school bd posts for city's ps system that may be set up under decentralization plan, noting that local bds may decide how Fed funds are to be applied to parochial schools; notes candidates for posts in past have gone before screening panels where United Parents Assns, opponent of aid to parochial schools, has been heavily represented; calls for equal representation on local bds of parents of ps children and parochial school children; says Archdiocese sees decentralization as inevitable

800 Candidates Solicited; Catholics Urged for School Posts

Feiffer: If at First You . . .; Jules Feiffer: If at First You . . .

Joe Choate has put away his trusty spacestretcher for the last time.  

CHOATE RETIRING AFTER 20 YEARS; Show's Managing Director Is Confident Boating Will Continue to Expand

J Dewey HS: Under construction, Coney Is sec, Bklyn; cost set at $10-million

All-Year Classes Planned; ALL-YEAR SCHOOL TO OPEN IN FALL

Palach given martyr's funeral; vast crowd restrained and silent; Charles U rector Prof Stary s; Palach mother present; illus; leadership represented by secondary officials, Czech Repub Mins Bezdicek and Bosak; liberal leaders Goldstuecker and ex-Mins Hajek and Kadlec present; various tributes include declaration by Czech RC Bishops; USSR div reptd moving from Moravia to Doupov, closer to Prague; map

CZECH YOUTH GETS A HERO'S FUNERAL; Half a Million Line Streets to Honor Student -- Soviet Troops Said to Move

QUITE late the other night I boarded a taxi in midtown Manhattan to go to Brooklyn Heights. It was a big, old-fashioned taxicab -- the kind with jump seats -- and the front seat was separated from the back by a piece of warpy plexiglass, apparently designed to discourage holdup men armed with water pistols.  

Hollywood's Haunted Movies; The Movies That Still Haunt Hollywood

PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 25 -Princeton's basketball team defeated Pennsylvania today, 7462, as a crowd of 5,500 turned out for the first intercollegiate event in Princeton's new fieldhouse, named in memory of L. Stockwell Jadwin of the class of 1928.  

Princeton Opens Its New Gym By Defeating Penn Five, 74-62; PRINCETON DOWNS PENN FIVE, 74-62

Yacht rating formulas have long been of interest and a cause for controversy among naval architects, owners and racing organizations. Lester Rosenblatt, naval architect and president of M. Rosenblatt  Son, Inc., of New York, one of the country's largest firms of naval architects and marine engineers, has definite views on what he considers two flaws in current yacht rating formulas.  

RATING FORMULAS LABELED UNFAIR; Rosenblatt, Naval Architect, Suggests Rule Penalizes Schooners and Yawls

speculation on antitrust action under Nixon Adm Atty Gen Mitchell and Justice Dept Antitrust Div head Asst Atty Gen McLaren; Johnson Adm left them a staff study by group under W F Mueller on business concentration with special stress on conglomerates; group conclusion is that present antimerger laws are inadequate

Will New Team Take New Antitrust View?; Will S.E.C. Restudy Antitrust?

Moon Landing Craft Unveiled by Astronauts; Moon Landing Craft Is Unveiled by Astronauts

Recreational Safe Boating Act of '68, sponsored by Transportation Dept, to be reintroduced into Cong in revised form, '69; provisions discussed

CONGRESS TO GET NEW BOATING BILL; Proposed Act to Emphasize Uniform Laws in States and Safety Programs

police begin round-up of students, workers and others suspected of opposition to regime, acting under new 'state of exception' decree; press announces emergency measures without pol comment; books included in censorship; opposition sources stunned by decree; Franco said to have acted on advice of mil and police officers and other conservative figures who demanded revival of authoritarianism

Hundreds Jailed in Spain In Drive on Regime's Foes; HUNDREDS JAILED BY SPAIN'S POLICE

In the Land of Camels and Kasbahs; In the Land of Camels and Kasbahs

Superstition holds that births and deaths come in threes. For the International Business Machines Corporation, antitrust suits have just arrived in threes.  

Competitors Unsure I.B.M. Should Be Split; Competitors Split Over I.B.M. Case

torrential rains cause mud slides in Los Angeles and neighboring counties; 11 die; hundreds of homes destroyed; illus; map; Gov Reagan declares disaster areas in 7 more southern and central counties

11 Die in Coast Mud Slides; Floods Worst in 32 Years; Mud Slides From Week's Rain Kill 11 in California

The queen of the sailing craft, by virtue of being biggest, is Seafarer-48, a product of Seafarer Fiberglass Yachts, Inc., of Huntington, L. I. She's a Sparkman  Stephen design, suitable for ocean racing and cruising, that is available in sloop or yawl rig and with gasoline or diesel auxiliary power.  

The Queen of the Show; 48-Foot Seafarer Is First Sailboat To Gain Honor in Boat Show History

comment on Sen Foreign Relations Com hearing on Yost apptmt notes criticism of Yost as subversive by Liberty Lobby gen counsel M D Jaffe and Sen Fulbright defense of Yost

Hickel: His Is a Wary Constituency

The 900 Days; The Siege of Leningrad. By Harrison E. Salisbury. Illustrated. 635 pp. New York: Harper & Row. $10.

George Dikeoulakos is a Greek professional basketball coach.

January 26, 1969

Headlines from January 26, 1969

Log of a Lonely Winner: 3,000 Miles in 26 Days; 1968 Winner of Singlehanded Transatlantic Race

Agnew: 'Thank You, Mr. President'

BOATWRIGHT GETS TOP U.S.G.A. POST, SUCCEEDING DEY; As Executive Director He Will control Amateurs -Hardin Is Re-Elected

THREE SHARE LEAD IN GOLF ON COAST; Archer, Johnson, Douglass Tied at 140 in 2d Round Marred by Winds, Rain

Computer Rates Draft Stars; Computer Calls Pro Draft Plays

Billboard 200

The Beatles [White Album]

TCB

Wichita Lineman

Fool On The Hill

Beggars Banquet

Notable Births

Historical Context for January 26, 1969