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...says Phillips, who has been following U.S. gymnastic progress since the 1979 World Championships in Fort Worth. "It was all the more bittersweet because I had gone to Moscow to cover the 1980 Games they could not attend. After the men's team victory, I talked to Bart Conner. There is no hug as bone-crushing as that of a gymnast capable of hanging motionless in an iron cross. 'It wasn't easy to wait so long,' I said to him. 'Yes,' he replied, 'but aren't you glad we stayed...
Unreasonable expectation will be a problem for the next male class of U.S. gymnasts. But for Peter Vidmar, 23, Bart Conner, 26, Mitch Gaylord, 23, and the rest of these new heroes in white, the team victory over China was an occasion for unrestrained celebration. If the hockey upset of the Soviets in 1980 is an imperfect analogy?and it is?the feeling inside the arenas was similar. Until now the men of this sport have drawn less attention than the women, an inequity Conner can explain in a single word: leotards. But a Nadia Comaneci's or Olga Korbut...
...strategy sounds simple, but the catch is that it is predicated on sacrifice. Thus Bart Conner, at 26 the smooth old master technician of the squad, an Olympian since 1976 and one of two American men since 1932 to win an individual gold medal in a world championship (the other: Kurt Thomas), was sent to the floor second and third to "make base" for the more flamboyant routines of Vidmar and Mitch Gaylord. Similarly, James Hartung, 24, and Scott Johnson, 23, dutifully rolled out in the early rounds, though they knew that in doing so, they gave up their hopes...
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Doyle Conner was attending a meeting of Southern farm officials in Baton Rouge, La., last week when he got the news. He left immediately for Miami. There, in a sour-orange tree in the backyard of a home in the Little Havana district, a state agriculture inspector had discovered one female and three male Mediterranean fruit flies in a trap. The medfly, as it is known, is a dreaded pest that could devastate Florida's billion-dollar citrus and vegetable industry if allowed to spread. Said Conner: "We're very concerned. This is obviously...
Labor leaders and other backers of Simpson-Mazzoli often view the aliens as a rising menace to both the jobs and the pay of U.S. citizens. Says Roger Conner, director of the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform: "I talked the other day to a Los Angeles contractor who told me he had just replaced a $20-an-hour American mason with an illegal $5-an-hour mason who is just as good. If nothing is done, wages for American workers will erode, and resentment among Americans will build dangerously...