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Harbor View Farm near Ocala, Fla., into a world-class racing stable. A half dozen years after its birth in 1958, Harbor View be came racing's second top money-winning stable (after Wheatley), but the purses dried up with Wolfson's conviction. Reason: some states will not renew the racing license of anyone convicted of a serious crime. Wolfson felt that his crime was not sufficiently serious, but after a friendly New York racing-board member warned him that his 1969 application would be rejected, Wolfson chose not to apply. He stayed out of racing until...
...Chinaglia, the New York Cosmos high-scoring striker, has an adversary's appreciation of the U.S. talent: "There is a nucleus of goalkeepers that are not good-they're exceptional. They could play in Europe now." And Americans have translated the physical aggressiveness of football into near world-class skill on defense...
...many postcollege world-class athletes in the U.S., finding the right kind of employment is itself an Olympian feat. Barred by the rules of amateurism from playing for pay, they have had to choose between dead-end jobs that allow time for training and competition, and accepting under-the-table payoffs from track-meet promoters and sporting-goods manufacturers. The payoffs go on, but now there is new hope for the amateur athletes-a jobs-for-jocks scheme devised by Howard Miller, 51, president of the Chicago-based Canteen Corp...
...while attending the Montreal Olympics two years ago. He wrote to 700 major corporations urging them to give permanent jobs, and time off for training, to Olympic-bound athletes. Miller also enlisted the help of the U.S. Olympic Committee and the Amateur Athletic Union to certify the athletes as world-class competitors. "The worst thing that can happen is that the kid you hire doesn't make the Olympics," says Miller. "Meanwhile, you've got yourself a highly motivated young person who generally has a college degree, and often a master...
...just a bump run, about 300 yards long--a pretty tough run. The prize would go to 'the most exciting run' down this slope. And there were world-class people there...