Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fred A. Slimp San Antonio...
...Bella Abzug, sent questionnaires to all the announced presidential candidates. A follow-up series of meetings were held to "teach them how to reach women," says Mildred Jeffrey, a longtime official of the United Auto Workers Union. In July 1983, five of the six presidential candidates traveled to San Antonio to meet the National Women's Political Caucus. It seems amazing now to remember that this was the first time that presidential candidates had made such a pilgrimage, that until then women had been considered a political sideshow...
...this the center, then? An international Woodstock? "The Olympic flame is the only hope for brotherhood, understanding and dialogue," says Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee. What else would he say? "The Olympics are the only times in the history of the world when so many nations come together in one spot in an association of friendship," says Charles Palmer, president of the British Olympic Association. Vested interest. According to Kurthan Fisek, a professor of public management from the University of Ankara, "No single institution in the entire history of mankind has been able to equate itself...
...some kind of sermonette they preach to themselves to get those beneficial chemicals fizzing? Of course they do. Has anyone heard a built-in dial-a-psych like Mike Storm's? Not recently. Storm is a 24-year-old pentathlete from North Arlington, Va., who lives in San Antonio because that is the site of the nation's only pentathlon training center, run by the Army at Fort Sam Houston. Money is no problem; a group of U.S. business men interested in the pentathlon underwrites his training expenses generously enough - about $1,200 a month - so that...
This blond and blue-eyed muscular young man says that he made up his mind to be an Olympian when he was seven, competing first as a swimmer, then moving to the bewitching variety of the pentathlon at 14. He visited the San Antonio training center that year, and returned summers during high school and his 4½ years at the University of Pennsylvania (where, while putting himself through a ferocious training regime, he also studied economics, political science and financial management). His extraordinary motivation is an asset in a sport whose audiences generally consist of coaches...