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...meter dashes, California's rangy Ray Norton, 22, will face half a dozen international stars who will need only the slightest break to beat him to the gold medals. Norton is the favorite because of his consistency under pressure and a smooth, driving stride that picks up speed as the race goes on. The long shot: West Germany's Armin Hary, 23, a Frankfurt department store clerk, who gets off the mark fast, ran the 100 meters in a world record time of 10 sec. Hary suffers from brittle nerves, and in preparation for the stress of Rome...
...going to take one bad event to bump a guy right out of a gold medal," says Coach Drake. "A bad start in the sprints, a puff of wind at the wrong time in the high jump or pole vault, a foul in the shotput or discus, a broken stride in the hurdles, and poof, it could be all over for one of these boys." Under such pressure, Johnson's greatest asset will be his bedrock of self-reliance, a quality that keeps him from having few really intimate friends, but allows him to work himself...
Goldwater smiled a tight smile at the faithful, but he did not break his stride. Long the rising Senate spokesman of Republican conservatives-and, to his irritation, of wild-eyed fringe groups as well -Barry Goldwater found himself in the national eye as he spoke out in wrath against the Nixon-Rockefeller platform agreement ("Governor Rockefeller," he told the Arizona delegation, "is out to destroy the Republican Party"). By convention's end, Goldwater, in some imperceptible investiture, had been crowned king of the nation's conservatives just as surely as Dick Nixon won the nomination...
...green leaves of plants, chlorophyll occurs as thin plates stacked up to form laminated disks. This intricate structure and a lot of accessory chemicals seem to be needed for chlorophyll to do its job. But in his achievement, Harvard's Woodward has almost certainly taken a long stride toward explaining photosynthesis-one of nature's innermost and most important secrets...
...Clearing the barriers in graceful stride, Ohio's Glenn Davis, 25, whipped through the grueling 400-meter hurdles in 49.5 sec. to better by 0.6 sec. the Olympic record he tied in 1956 while winning a gold medal...