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...Until this fight, Foreman was best known as the boxer who waved a miniature U.F. Flag after he won the heavyweight gold medal at the Olympics in Mexico City, Coming soon after the black gloved salute given by John Carlos and Tommy Smith during the playing of the national anthem in an earlier awards ceremony, Foreman's gesture received much praise from those troubled by the "black power" movement in sports. They interpreted Foreman's flag as a sterling sign of patriotism and a rebuke to the Carlos-Smith contingent...
...national anthem, that song has been under fire since the War of 1812. At the Mexico City Olympics, black athletes greeted it with a Black Power salute. In Munich, the mode was elaborate indifference. Last week The Star-Spangled Banner was again the center of a brief, ludicrous controversy at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There, the director of the U.S. Olympic Invitational Track Meet announced that it would not be played at the event. Thereupon the Garden switchboard lit up like a scoreboard. After receiving "irate calls from all over the country," the meet officials...
There is, of course, an aesthetic case to be made against the national anthem. As Bass-Baritone George London indicates, the song is "impossible to sing if you're sober...the words do not automatically communicate their message." Another opera star, Enrico Caruso, found so little to understand in The Star-Spangled Banner that he devised a phonetic version: "O seiken iu see bai dhi dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs...
...despite all the passion and polemic, the symbols continue to endure and prevail. Imperfect, wide open to charges of hypocrisy and misrepresentation, they manage to reain enormous emotional significance. The vast majority of Americans cannot and will not reject the flag, the anthem or the pledge. It would be, in effect, rejecting aspects of themselves. Whatever militant blacks may feel, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins' directive speaks with equal commitment: "There is no national anthem for Negroes. There is only one national anthem. The national anthem is for all Americans." In a debate with a member of an East...
...Matthews for fidgeting during the national anthem. 42. Mamie Van Doren. 43. Gil McDougal: Scores pitched for Cleveland. 44. Dave McNally. Jim Palmer. Wally Bunker. McNally; 33. innings. 45. Jerry West. Picture A. John Misha Petkavich preparing for a Jimmy Fund benefit. Picture B. Chris Papagianis: Ivy soccer scoring record for one season...