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...competition, and it brought her luck. She shot from the starting line faster than countrywoman Heike Warnicke and won the 3,000 m going away by a comfortable three seconds. Back in the pack, but victorious in a different sort of race, with no finish line, was American Mary Docter. She caused a pre- Olympic sensation with the admission that she was battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol. Docter finished clear-eyed, 15th and slightly disappointed. "In 1988 I didn't train hardly at all, and I finished 19th," she said...
Comeback stories in the Olympics crop up as often as TV commercials, but few athletes have come from as far behind as two American speed skaters. Early last year, three-time Olympian Mary Docter (near left), 30, checked herself into a clinic for substance abuse. She now concedes that her use of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine was partly responsible for her poor finish in the 1988 Games. When Docter qualified in December for the 1,500-m, 3,000-m and 5,000-m events, it was a double-barreled victory. Says she: "I've stayed straight...
...concern for their weight. Furnished $500,000 by the U.S.O.C., the speed skaters did not expect a corporate sponsor, and they have none. One thing about speed skaters, though, when they tumble and go sliding into the wall, they always dust off their bottoms and finish the course. Mary Docter and Erik Hendriksen are America's best, but a medal for either will be cause to rejoice...
...YORK, Jan 5. Docter Alexander 11 Murry '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, will testify as a defense witness in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss LL.B. '29, when Claude B. Cross, LL.B. '20, Hiss attorney, calls the faculty member to the stand tomorrow in U.S. District Court...
...Formers," proclaimed the Daily Express, "ar welcum to Docter Folics nu Inglish. WE PREFER IT AS IT IS." But the Evening Standard felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...