Word: holte
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...spectacular. Johnson, initially a scrawny sprinter, bulked up like a wrestler. In August 1987, he shattered the 100-meter world record with a stunning 9.83-sec. performance at the Rome track-and-field championships, a feat that Francis claims was aided by an extensive anabolic- steroid program. But John Holt, general secretary of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, has said there are no grounds for nullifying the seemingly tainted record, because Johnson tested negative for the drugs after that key race. The Jamaican-born sprinter, 27, had no such luck after his 9.79 sprint in Seoul...
...once the right roles came along, the applause never stopped. Today Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester and Tweety, and their colleagues remain Saturday-morning superstars. They are also the focus of That's All Folks! by Steve Schneider (Henry Holt; 253 pages; $39.95). This comic valentine offers impeccable research, interviews with the animated geniuses who breathed life and laughter into their Looney Tunes, and hundreds of rare illustrations. Given the price of a single frame of original Warner Bros. art ($400 for Bugs and carrot), this is the season's biggest...
...Henry Holt; 485 pages...
...Henry Holt; 261 pages...
Because of Bulger's conservative record in the Senate and his power to impede legislation he opposes, a host of liberal interest groups and labor unions worked for Holt's campaign and publicized their support...