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...finish. Duke's Dave Sime, 24, made a frenzied dive that sent him skidding along the cinders and tied Hary's time of 10.2. But Hary had clearly crossed the line first to win the gold medal (Norton finished sixth), completing the finest exhibition of sprinting in Olympic history. Said Champion Hary: "I'm a fast starter. That's all there...
...whispers. But love, naturally, has wax in its ears. Novelist Ham knows the language lovers speak, a pottage of mush and banalities, and he is not above using it. He justifies the "I love yous" by capturing the feeling of the roller-coaster slide into passion, that breath-catching dive in which a man and a woman cannot help themselves and do not want to. Indeed. Wink and Gin are so romantically in love that they do not sleep together, a refreshingly archaic innovation for the modern novel...
...women's 3-meter springboard dive, California's favored Paula Jean Myers Pope, a 25-year-old dental technician, looked more like an ugly duckling than a swan in her opening try ("I went over too far and the entry was bad"), never did recover and finished second to East Germany's cool Ingrid Kramer, a 17-year-old student who started diving five years ago when her father decided to make her into an athlete and pitched her into the pool. The loss was the first ever suffered by the U.S. in the event...
...first 100-meter trial, Farrell took a deep dive to spare himself the hard bellywhop of a flat racing start, stroked powerfully to finish in 55.9, second fastest time of the round. In the semifinals, Farrell got a bad start, but sprinted wildly to hit the wall with the fastest time...
Defeat & Victory. By the finals, the swimming meet belonged to Farrell. Spectators and rival swimmers alike cheered him every time he appeared at poolside. A teen-age girl pressed a religious medal into his hand. With a good start, a racing dive this time, Farrell was up with the leaders at the turn. But as he sprinted home, he struck a lane marker with his arm and for a moment floundered off-rhythm. He closed fast, and the finishing order was in doubt - to everyone but himself. Even before the announcement, he buried his face in a towel and moaned...