Word: decathloners
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...sending in a series of second and third stringers, one after another, until one of them scores." Neither Udall's wit nor his jump shot-he was a basketball star at the University of Arizona-could stop the Republicans. Thanks largely to California Congressman Bob Mathias, former Olympic decathlon champ, the G.O.P. took the 24-minute exhibition...
...TIME'S editors plead innocent of any whammy. Overall, the good luck has overwhelmingly outweighed the bad. Golfer Jack Nicklaus and Prizefighter Cassius Clay, for example, were relative unknowns when they were on TIME'S cover; within a year they were at the pinnacle of their sports. Decathlon Ace Bob Mathias, Tennis Star Althea Gibson and Hockey Great Bobby Hull, to name just a few, will testify that no gremlins visited them after TIME covers. As for baseball, Detroit's Denny McLain responded to his cover story last year by going on to win an incredible...
Died. Eugene Vidal, 73, pioneer promoter of civil aviation and father of Author Gore Vidal; in Los Angeles, Calif. Vidal starred in football at West Point and competed in the decathlon in the Antwerp Olympic Games of 1920. He later taught aviation and coached football at the academy, resigned his commission in 1926 to become assistant general manager of Transcontinental Air Transport (now TWA). From 1933 to 1937 he was Director of Air Commerce in Washington, where he organized and expanded the Government's civil aeronautics program. Later he served as a director of Northeast Airlines and as aviation...
...shaking Kennedy's hand at the moment he was shot and was the first to grab Sirhan. He had described the shooting to the grand jury as "very deliberate." Two of Kennedy's companions, former L.A. Ram Lineman Roosevelt Grier, who wrestled with Sirhan, and Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, who knocked the pistol from his grasp, should be on hand, as well as Author George Plimpton, who also joined in the fray. When the time comes for them to recall their movements, the prosecution will produce a scale model of the pantry, with warming tables, tray stackers...
...have been a boon to Oregon's Dick Fosbury, whose unorthodox, over-the-bar-backwards, high-jumping style propelled him to an Olympic record height of 7 ft. 41 in. It certainly did nothing to slow down Bill Toomey, whose speed afoot was the major factor in his decathlon victory...