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...composed the bulk of a talent-laden squad, proved a new breed of aquawomen. Harder working and more serious about their sport, most of them should return for at least a year. Several names stand prominently in the foreground of future expectations. Butterflyers Norma Barton and Kathleen McCloskey, sprinter Janie Smith, and distance freestyler Maureen Gildea come instantly to mind...
...said earlier this year. "It's the most enthusiastic, the most fun, and the most successful." Part of that success stemmed from the tri-captains themselves--Lenz, Thad McNulty and Joe Salvo--all of whom were drawn from different areas of the team. McNulty, a distance specialist, Salvo, a sprinter, and Lenz, who throws the hammer, provided a real sense of unity in a sport which inherently stresses individualism...
...Sprinter Joe Salvo distinguished himself in the 55-meter dash, making the semis and, for the second time this season, defeating Princeton's Manny Modu on the Tiger's home ground...
...There may be guys who can do 5,000 and 10,000 meters, but to do this-my God! Equating it to running, it is doing the impossible." Said Bob Mathias, winner of the Olympic decathlon in 1948 and 1952: "It's spectacular. He has to have the sprinter's ability, plus the lung capacity and the stamina for the longer distances. He is just a super athlete...
...White House prompting, four resolutions endorsing a Moscow boycott were introduced on the Hill. By the time the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on one such resolution, the Olympic committee was thoroughly on the defensive. The president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Robert J. Kane, a former sprinter at Cornell and longtime athletic director at the university, found little support as he testified against the ban. "We do have a problem to face if we're out there alone, swaying in the wind," he argued. "If we are the only nation not to appear in the Games...