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With such unpredictable performances from the animals, the film's villain, former Olympic Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, chickened out on a scheduled wrestling scene with a leopard. "It was chained to a tree," explained Rafer, "and it was ripping the bark right off with its claws. I told the director: 'You get yourself another boy.' " Johnson was not the only recalcitrant actor. On the day Tarzan returned to the set, he was directed to ambush three Indian extras. Mike out-Tarzaned his thirteen predecessors, played it like a red-dogging linebacker, taking out all three with...
...Semiramide is musically the most brilliant of Rossini's 35 operas, it has not been staged in the U.S. since 1906. Written in 1823 as a florid showcase for the human voice, Semiramide is among the most fiendishly difficult of all operas to sing, a kind of vocal decathlon that requires a range and stylistic flexibility that few if any modern-day singers would or could tackle-that is, until Horne and Sutherland came along. But both their husbands decided that not even Rossini's musical scrollwork was adequate to display the full virtuosity of their two stars...
...time it was over, 41 nations had divided up the costume jewelry. The U.S. did fine in sailing (two silver, three bronze) -but the 15 yachting medals were split eight different ways. Germany's balding Willi Holdorf, the oldest-looking 24-year-old in Tokyo, won the decathlon. New Zealand's incomparable Peter Snell, already the 800-meter champion, scored another awesome victory in the 1,500-meter run for what he termed "a nice double." Australia's Betty Cuthbert, who won three events at Melbourne in 1956, cranked her 26-year-old bones around...
Germany's Willie Holdorf pulled a major upset in the Olympics yesterday, beating Nationalist China's C.K. Yang to win the decathlon gold medal...
...DECATHLON...