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This perennial weak spot of U.S. athletes is explained by European critics as an accurate reflection of U.S. preoccupation with speed rather than guts and staying power. But this year, as in 1948, the U.S. has an answer to that. In the decathlon (ten events for one prize), the closest...
The Dark Hills. John Fine grew up in the loud, dirty, infinitely energetic heartland of U.S. industrial power. Pennsylvania's gentle green hills had been ripped open, and out spilled the guts of America-coal and iron. The sparkling rivers, where men had once drunk clear water from cupped...
The modern military airplane carries a frightening passenger. The name is G.* During steady, level flights, G keeps still as a mouse, but when the plane makes a turn or pulls out of a dive, G takes charge. Every part of the pilot's body grows unnaturally heavy. His...
Pacote is half-drunk. For a year, his courage has been "going fast like a handful of water dribbling out of ... cupped palms through the fingers." At 29 his face is scarred and drawn, his hair streaked with white. A flashier torero, 20-year-old Tano Ruiz, has the crowds...
What Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen saw in spring training this year was a lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 165 Ibs.), cocksure youngster with plenty of promise, but little experience. Dressen asked Loes how he held the ball for various pitches. Loes's laconic answer: "I figure it doesn'...