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Almost as soon as they landed in New York, the seven visiting Soviet strongmen began to wonder whether weight lifting in the U.S. is a sport or a sideshow. Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began...
Strictly speaking, weight lifting is not a team sport. Each lifter must compete in three different styles of lifting,* with nothing but his own explosive energy to help him get the hefty bar bells aloft. But somehow, after their sad start, the U.S. strongmen developed a muscular team morale...
...chest, then to arms' length overhead. The snatch, in which the weight is lifted from floor to the over head position in one explosive movement. The clean-and-jerk. in which the weight is hoisted neck-high while the lifter drops into a squat or split, then "jerked" aloft as the legs are straightened...
...Bell Aircraft's X2, carried aloft by a mother plane, reached 126,000 ft. The previous world's record (unofficial) in ground-to-air flights-80,190 ft.-was made a fortnight ago by a French Trident...
...sigh of relief. When he finished his acceptance speech, they tumbled into the streets with the same joy they showed when Rojas toppled. Waving handkerchiefs, flags and pictures of Lleras, they wove in and out among horn-honking cars and buses.They stripped palm trees bare, carried the heavy fronds aloft in the ancient symbol of rejoicing. Students turned their coats inside out, joined hands and snake-danced to the chants of "Lleras! Lleras! Lleras...