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...outside and took aim on Arzhanov. With one last lung-devouring spurt, he lunged for the finish line and edged the falling Russian by the length of his lucky cap (which he forgot to remove during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner). Growled Bowerman, who once withdrew a runner's scholarship because the boy got engaged: "Well, he sure shot one theory of mine to hell...
GEORGE MCGOVERN'S primary campaign won him the Democratic nomination but left him with an intractable problem: an economic program that stamped him in the public mind both as a radical and a man who could not make his figures add up properly. Even before the convention, McGovern withdrew the program and promised to have a new one ready by Labor Day. Last week he kept his pledge. Venturing into Wall Street, where he had frightened more people more thoroughly than any Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt, he unveiled the new McGovernomics-a program much more modest and consistent than...
...Mexico City, did little to smooth over the rivalry with his candid statement: "Right now, Spitz is better than Schollander." As Chavoor puts it: "Mark wanted to be friends with Schollander and all those other big studs, but they didn't want any part of Mark. So he withdrew." As hurt as he was flippant and cocksure, Spitz made his extravagant predictions for victory in the 1968 Olympics, thereby abrading the already raw relations with his teammates. In fact, many of them began rooting for him to lose...
Threatened or actual boycotts are not new to the Olympic Games. U.S. participation in the 1936 Berlin Games was in doubt for months as many Americans urged a boycott to protest the anti-Semitism of the Nazi hosts. In 1956 Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon withdrew from the Melbourne Games because of the British-French occupation of Suez; that same year Spain and Holland refused to compete because of Russia's invasion of Hungary. Threatened withdrawal by Black African nations from the 1968 Mexico City Games resulted in the exclusion of black athletes from racist South Africa...
...immediately specialized in high-turnover products priced between the nickel and dime items of F.W. Woolworth's and the 500 minimum then common in department stores. Nearly 50 years ago, he decided that the business needed professional managers rather than a merchant at the top, and he gradually withdrew from active participation to devote most of his time to philanthropy and hobbies. The chain continued to prosper, and now includes 1,190 stores in 43 states with annual sales of $1.5 billion...