Word: decathloner
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...Indian was one of history's great athletes, excelling at football, pentathlon, decathlon, golf, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle, squash, handball and horsemanship. So when he died in 1953, the Pennsylvania coal town of Mauch Chunk (pop. 5.945), not far from Carlisle, where he went to college, welcomed his corpse with a $10,500 mausoleum, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pa., in his honor. The town fathers figured he would be a great tourist draw. But disillusionment has set in, and John H. Otto, chairman of the County Water and Sewer Authority, is now leading a campaign to change...
...reveal an athlete's face in stunning closeup, the moment of truth is seized; an Italian cyclist, narrowly losing one contest, bursts into tears; the barefoot Bikila Abebe sprints through torchlit Roman streets to win the 26-mile marathon and Ethiopia's first Olympic gold medal; U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson consolingly embraces his close friend and runner-up, Taiwan's C. K. Yang. Poignant drama erupts when a Russian pole vaulter disastrously breaks his ankle. There is comedy, too, as a narrator dryly remarks of Britain's winning, waddling roadwalker: "One cannot honestly say that...
...really equal to whites in their abilities, or are they disqualified by some anthropological defect? The simplest, most frequent reply is to cite Negroes who have become famous. No one can argue about the extraordinary physical feats of baseball's Willie Mays, pro football's Jimmy Brown, Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson and many other athletes. Similarly, the Negro has long held his share of the spotlight in the performing arts, as witness the success of such as Jazzman Miles Davis, Singers Lena Home, Harry Belafonte and Leontyne Price...
...American Cancer Society has thought up a new kind of advertising - uncommercial. Called "Athletes Against Cancer," the campaign is a series of cigarette testimonials in reverse. "I don't smoke," grins Olympics Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. "Smoking cuts down on wind. And an athlete needs wind as much as he needs his legs. Athletes in top condition don't smoke - they can't afford to." Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford (who did some testimonial commercials last year for Camels) says: "Cigarette smoking is dangerous for your health. I guess we all know that science has proved...
...DECATHLON. Ducky Drake, his track coach at the University of California at Los Angeles, calls him "the finest athlete in the world." Nationalist China's wiry Yang Chuan-kwang, 29, may be just that. For a few days last January C. K. Yang held the world indoor pole-vault record: 16 ft. 3¼ in. Last week at Walnut, his legs were racked with cramps, and Coach Drake had to massage his muscles. Yang still managed to vault 15 ft. 10½ in., enough to earn him 1,515 points on the decathlon scale -the maximum allowed...