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...hard to recall any that has been so passionately denounced. In Canada, a country that was delighting in its first gold medal of the Games, outrage abounded. Canadian Sports Minister Jean Charest announced the draconian penalty of banning Johnson from ever representing Canada on a national team again, calling the incident a "national embarrassment." Many saw the sprinter as pitiable, and some, like I.O.C. vice president Richard Pound, believed he had been duped as well as doped, saying, "Johnson probably wouldn't know what a steroid is." But across Canada spread a sense of bewilderment and anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shame Of the Games | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...aroused crowd was quickly subdued, however, when Mentum took a quick jaunt to the men's room and Brown's Mark Charest single-handed tied things with a goal which was as unexpected to the partisan Crimson followers as being served pigeon at the House of China...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skaters Come Out of Reading Period Sleep, Send Bruins Back In, 4-3, On Late Garrity Goal | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

With the Bruins applying the pressure in Harvard's end, the Crimson defense got careless for one of the few times and forgot to clear the puck in front of Petrovek. Charest then took control and squared things at three...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skaters Come Out of Reading Period Sleep, Send Bruins Back In, 4-3, On Late Garrity Goal | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...Deal, one of the least permanent jobs in Washington has been the important legal post of Chief of Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue-whose legal policies toward taxes and taxpayers have lately been increasingly stiffened and dominated by onetime Law Professor Herman Oliphant. Clarence Miles Charest, who held it in 1933, moved out to make room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Shafroth Out | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Twenty-three years ago, a hunting companion shot off Clarence Charest's right arm. Forced to give up his favorite game, baseball, he took up tennis. When serving, he holds the ball in his hand, throws it up with the same motion of his arm that carries the racquet back, whacks it smartly with an efficient tackhammer motion. He keeps a second ball in his pocket, a third on the ground back of baseline. He rarely needs the second ball. Now 50, an able Washington lawyer, he won the Veterans' Championship for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Forest Hills | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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