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...same. They matter, these Games: to Belgium's cyclists, Argentina's single sculler, Holland's swimmers, the boxers from the Seychelles. India's field hockey team is out to prove something against Pakistan. Kenya's long-distance runners have things to prove to themselves. Cheers for the Chadians. Hail to the Swazis. Where else would these people come together so eagerly...
...long-jump pit of Evelyn's team served as their sandbox. There might have been no Carl without Carol. In high school she was a force, a varsity diver and gymnast who played recreation-league softball, ran track, waved pom-poms and wished she could do more. Carl attempted hail-fellow sports like baseball, but as a coach of that period remembers, "he was always picking daisies in centerfield." For Lewis, track became a comfort station, a self-sufficient arena where the contestants are allowed to be withdrawn. "I was never a fighter when I was young," he says...
...California ever adopts a new state flower," Poet Ernest McGaffey wrote in 1923, "the motor car is the logical blossom for the honor. Whether commercially or socially, whether from the standpoint of business or sport, it is the same, the whole same and nothing but the same. All hail rubber! All hail the automobile...
...proud of his most famous role as Attorney General in the "Saturday Night Massacre," when, during the Watergate scandal, he chose to resign rather than follow then-President Nixon's orders to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34. But campaign advertisements currently running on local TV stations hail his resignation--which made him a hero among liberals--as one of his greatest accomplishments...
...tell you that him-self." Said State Rep. Forrester A. Clark, Jr. '58 (R-Hamilton). "He has a very open style he's an easy-to-communicate-with person. Richardson tends to be a little more distant than the average politician; he never tries to be the hail-fellow-well...