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Besides being football captain and holder of five pass-catching records at the academy, Carpenter was battalion commander and winner of a special award for "inspirational personal courage and leadership in athletics." "Bill," said former Army Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, "had the mentality for doing the unusual. His kind of leadership was the quiet type-action rather than words. He'd do something himself on the football field and that would inspire the others...
...twice on Sundays, doesn't smoke, drink or dance, addresses his elders as "sir" and "ma'am," and never even says "shucks" in the presence of ladies, Jim Ryun inspires an awful lot of antagonism. New Zealand's Peter Snell, who was then the world record holder for the mile, explained why on the eve of last summer's A.A.U. championships. Snarled Snell: "I resent having anybody that young in my kind of race." He resented it a good deal more next day, when Ryun won the A.A.U. mile, beating the New Zealander to the tape...
Ryun has run faster since. Distance runners traditionally do not reach their peak before their mid-20s-Britain's Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4-min. barrier in 1954, and France's Michel Jazy, the current record holder, is 30. Ryun, at the tender age of 19, is already the second-fastest miler in history. In this month's Compton Invitational track meet at Los Angeles, he sped the distance in 3 min. 53.7 sec.-just .1 sec. off Jazy's world record. Afterward, he complained mildly that the official who was supposed...
...less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate red, and the whole house is the sort of marshmallow dream that Hollywood merchants manufacture year after year to spoon glamour into the dull, grey life of your average mortgage-holder...
Boots & Cable. Holder of the post ever since it was created four years ago, Chicago-born Mansfield, 44, is a onetime investigative staff member of congressional committees who bears the rank of Assistant Secretary of State, and is empowered to suspend almost any aid program. Thus Mansfield and his 24 fellow traveling inspectors are greeted on their journeys abroad with apprehensive cooperation, if not jubilation-further encouraged by the frequent assumption that the Inspector General is a relative of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (he isn't). Mansfield and his operatives have tracked everything from 24 million bushels...