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...would be something different to send to employers. (To view Hampton's video résumé, go to TIME.com. With his brother at the camera, the résumé "took me 45 minutes to film and 30 minutes to edit," says Hampton, 23. But that was enough to impress Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. The public relations firm interviewed him--in person--a short time...
...expect he will surpass his previous show ing. I am sure that when we meet again in Rome we shall be good friends." Just Poof. Kuznetsov, Johnson, Yang and a husky long shot from Oregon named Dave Edstrom (best score: 8,176) will likely turn the decathlon competition in Rome into the tensest in history. "It's only going to take one bad event to bump a guy right out of a gold medal," says Coach Drake. "A bad start in the sprints, a puff of wind at the wrong time in the high jump or pole vault...
Believing that the newspaper should contribute to the well-being of the community, Edstrom is hopeful that they can do a "great deal" towards racial tolerance, and, more specifically, to help stamp out discrimination against the Negro...
...only hurt the cause of the Southern Negro," according to Edstrom, "if you holler about social equality. That," he explains, "is a thing you can't legislate. I'm afraid that if we don't approach the problems in the right way," he warns, "we're going to have conflict, bloody conflict." The Courier-Journal has consistently campaigned for equal political and economic opportunities for Negroes, supporting several of their candidates in state and local elections...
...Edstrom grants that "the Negro is still not a one hundred percent American citizen, although he has a lot of advantages which he never had before. His whole course has been upward and outward," he adds, however, "and no other race can show comparable progress...