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...Before the Olympics, Ovett downplayed the 800-meter contest. Said he: "I'm in the 800 because I'm in Moscow and I do want to win it. But the race is over too quickly for me." Even so, the cocky, sometimes surly mile record holder gave himself a 50% chance of winning. What is worse, at least from Coe's standpoint, is that he has upped his self-determined odds to 90% at the longer distance, where he has won 43 straight races. Said Ovett: "The 1,500 is the one I'm really prepared...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in January urged Britain's athletes to boycott the Olympics, many of her countrymen found themselves torn between an urge to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and their desire to see Sebastian Coe bring home some gold. Coe, 23, is the world record holder at 800, 1,000 and 1,500 meters, and held the mile record as well until only two weeks ago. So intense was the public and press curiosity about whether he would join the majority of the 67-member British team in forgoing the trip to Moscow that Coe fled...
Even in death William Powell Lear is still generating turbulence. As the holder of 126 patents, Lear made a fortune and, amid considerable bitterness, bailed out of two of his most ambitious ventures. In 1962 he left Lear, Inc. after the board of directors turned down his demands that the aircraft-instrumentation firm build jets. In 1967, when sales initially failed to take off, he sold Lear Jet Industries Inc. to the Gates Rubber Co. Two years before he died of leukemia in 1978 at age 75, Lear started a new firm, LearAvia, in Reno, to manufacture a turboprop corporate...
...have decided to go. A quarter of Australia's Olympic-bound athletes have withdrawn in the face of a public outcry over the country's decision not to boycott and the prospect of poor competition in some events. Among those stay-at-homes is Tracey Wickham, 17, holder of world records in two swimming events...
...member of the Harvard Corporation from 1970-1979, Blum is widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities on 20th-century American history. He has taught at Yale since 1957 and is the first holder of the Woodward chair in American history...