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STANFORD [97]: Andrew Vlahov 2-0--4; Howard Wright 5-2--12; Greg Butler 4-1--9; Terry Taylor 1-4--6; Todd Lichti 8-3--20; Scott Meinert 1-0--2; Bryan McSweeney 5-3--13; Derek Bruton 2-1--5; Oliver Cunningham 1-0-2; Stuart Thomas 4-0--9; Deshon Wingate 1-2--4; John Patrick 2-0--6; Lang Meyer 0-1--1; Brian Booker 1-0--2; Ben Wenkes...
...crown. Some 60 years later, when no white fighter could manage to win the title in the ring, whites took solace in a cinematic champ, Rocky. The current pro football season cast up another unsettling black breakthrough. Black quarterbacks for the first time started on three pro teams: Randall Cunningham for the Philadelphia Eagles, Warren Moon for the Houston Oilers and Douglas Williams for the Super Bowl-bound Washington Redskins...
...doubt years of daily hoops and playground stratagems could produce "natural" stars in the whitest suburbs too. The aspirations of ghetto youngsters, though, are distorted by another potent myth -- one that ironically will be strengthened by the success of Cunningham, Moon and Williams -- that professional sports can be a way out of poverty for a significant number of young black men. Only one of every 1,000 high school football players ever makes it to the pros -- hardly good odds, as the Greek might put it. Those searching for a better life would be well advised to pour the energy...
...response from American companies was short of nyet, but it was a decided not yet. Not only does federal law prohibit the transfer to the U.S.S.R. of the high-tech electronics used in spacecraft, but no one seems willing to accept Soviet assurances. Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham spoke to the Soviet group and later dismissed the proposal. Said he: "We'd be naive to think they're not going to peek under the covers to look at our hardware...
From Balanchine to Merce Cunningham, choreographers invited Taylor to join their groups. For six years he danced mostly with Graham but in 1961 went on his own for good. A foe of ballet's artifice, he was inspired by the city's population: "They are standing, squatting, sitting everywhere like marvelous ants or bees, and their moves and stillnesses are ABCs that if given a proper format could define dance in a new way." Now his privations really began, and he records them with deep feeling and baleful gusto. Home was usually a wretched flat, cold water or no water...