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...final backstretch, Viren was spent. His rival, known as "Yifter the Shifter" for his overdrive kicks, sprinted home. Yifter's time was 20 sec. slower than the world record, but this was of no consequence to the jubilant Ethiopians, who danced and sang in the stands afterward. "We are running for medals," exulted Yifter...
...publication in 1970 of Human Sexual Inadequacy, by Dr. William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, was one of those events that transform the clinical landscape. Afterward sex therapy seemed a brave new world, and Masters and Johnson were its gurus. Already known for their significant findings about the physiological processes involved in sex, the pair devoted the book to the therapies they had developed at their St. Louis clinic for such problems as frigidity, impotence and premature ejaculation. Over a period of 16 years, they reported, they treated 790 cases, mostly involving married couples; in each case they conducted...
...gold medal in trapshooting, was the first champion to have the Olympic flag and hymn used at his ceremony (Italy and a number of other Western European countries chose to participate in Moscow but to protest by using Olympic symbols instead of their own). Tears rose in his eyes afterward when a group of his countrymen draped a green, red and white Italian flag over his shoulders. The Soviet crowd jeered when no national flags were raised after a Swiss, a Frenchman and a Dane finished one-two-three in the 4,000-meter individual pursuit cycling. The winner, Robert...
...cheering crowd, Salnikov, 20, finished in 14:58.27, more than four seconds below the world record set by Brian Goodell of the U.S. during the 1976 games. "If the U.S. swimmers were here in the pool, I'm sure my time would have been the same," he said afterward, speaking through an interpreter even though he has a diploma as an English translator. "So far, no one else has broken 15 minutes at this distance. If they can do it, I invite them to prove it. For now, Salnikov...
Next week, while the U.S.S.R. and East Germany continue their cakewalk to the victory stand, some 550 U.S. athletes, coaches and sports officials will be in Washington to receive commemorative congressional gold medals. Afterward they are scheduled to meet with President and Mrs. Carter at the White House. Says F. Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee: "It's our way of honoring the athletes who qualified as Olympians . . . We want them to know how much the nation thinks of them...