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...addition to a short personal note to each athlete, the group will be sending him a copy of the statement they made to the press July 24 and two pages of answers to questions commonly asked of the group, such as "why not boycott?" Canning and the other members of the group continue to say they themselves will not boycott the Olympic Games...
...Curt Canning, captain of the crew and one of the six members of the group formed earlier this summer, said yesterday that the group will send out personal letters to the basketball team and to the part of the equestrian team which has been chosen. Most of the trials for the more than 500 Olympic berths will be held during the next two weeks...
...Canning said that the group does not exist to try to moderate the stand the blacks may take in Mexico City. "The Olympic Committee [nonetheless] seems to think of us as a possible moderating influence," the captain said, and he added that members of the Committee have been in touch with...
Although he insisted that "We're not in this to persuade the blacks to do what we want to do," Canning personally thinks the most effective demonstration would be "a joint one which whites could join because of something called good taste...
...four with, composed of Paul Hoffman, Steve Brooks, Fritz Hobbes, Scott Steketee, and Andy Larkin, lost to Penn and Vesper Saturday. The four without, composed of Art Evans, Curt Canning, Cleve Livingston, and Dave Higgins--the stern pair and the bow pair--finished on Saturday behind Vesper and the Eastern Development Clinic working out of M.I.T...