Word: decathlon
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...meter run: "We are being exploited to the fullest extent. Exploitation is taking away the right to run in the Olympics after working with that objective in mind for years." Agreed a former Olympic star, Bob Mathias, 49, of Colorado Springs, Colo., who won gold medals in the decathlon in 1948 and 1952: "Our people want to go to Moscow to beat the hell out of those guys and tell them face to face what's wrong with them...
SEPARATED. Bruce Jenner, 30, Olympic decathlon champion in 1976, now an ABC sports commentator and Wheaties spokesman; and his ex-stewardess wife, Chrystie; after seven years of marriage...
...sequel's producers had virtually no trouble recruiting the cast they wanted. Some prominent athletes-Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson and former U.S.C. Running Back Anthony Davis -volunteered to play minor roles. Cafe Pianist-Singer Bobby Short flew to Los Angeles on a few days' notice to play himself in an early 1960s literary party scene. The biggest coups by far were the casting of James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando. Jones had originally been lined up to play Chicken George in Roots 1. Had he done so, he would not have been usable as Haley in Roots...
BORN. To Bruce Jenner, 29, Olympic decathlon gold medalist of 1976 and television personality, and Chrystie Jenner, 30, former flight attendant: a boy, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Burton William. Weight...
...When they told me I was going to make a screen test, I asked if the test would be true-false or multiple choice," recalls the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner. So far, Jenner hasn't made it to the movie screen, but he is still high on show business. Lacing on skates instead of running shoes, he sings and cavorts with fellow Olympic Star Dorothy Hamill on her April 28 ABC special. In one sequence he does a James Bond routine and brandishes a smoking umbrella. "He was really a lot of fun to work with...