Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine progresses through athletes, intellectuals, "tastemaker," and at last to "Footlinghts," women of stage, screen and song. These are women who knew how to play up to the camera, and their portraits are full of a charming vanity. An aging Helen Hayes, bedecked in gold satin, diamond jewelry and long white gloves, sits atop a throne set smack in the middle of Broadway. Mae West--well, Mae West is Mae West, and here she is shown staring, almost licking her lips, at some anonymous specimen of beefcake. Barbra Streisand once again arrogantly displays the-nose-I-wouldn't-get-fixed...
...Fred Newhouse of the U.S. who watched helplessly as Juantorena burst past him in the last 20 meters. "He ain't God," said Newhouse, "but he's good." "He's what the future of running is going to be," said Mai Whitfield, gold medal winner in the 800 for the U.S. in 1948 and 1952. "He had no respect for nobody. He just went out there and started smoking...
Less rewarding, according to some U.S. gold medalists, was their lot at home. Their refrain became a familiar-and unsettling-one at the Games. "America expects its athletes to wave a flag and win a medal every four years," complained Discus Champion Mac ("Wolfman") Wilkins. "But then you're supposed to take off that silly underwear and go out and make a decent living." Long-Jump Winner Arnie Robinson, whose wife Cynthia held down two jobs so that he could devote the past three years to training, warned, "There will be some big surprises in 1980, when...
...horses. All the rest were hamburger salesmen. Given the politics and economics that ride on the Games, it is not surprising that amateurism gets the lip service and professionalism the nod. Russia and its bloc allies have spent millions on a Marxian alchemy that turns young muscle into gold medals. America "does it my way" with a flexible alliance of Government blessings, publicity-minded colleges, eager athletes and free enterprise...
...from ABC's superb pictures of the events themselves. Nadia Comaneci performing her flawless routines in a trance of innocence. Olga Korbut turning into an instant Edith Piaf. Gymnast Shun Fujimoto's kamikaze dismount with a broken knee. The victory lap after the 400-meter hurdles when Gold Medal Winner Ed Moses and Silver Medalist Mike Shine loped round the track in joyous exhaustion. Weightlifter Vasili Alexeyev looking like the Buddha meditating over 561 I=lbs. of iron...