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...significant power after twelve years without a gold medal. "The U.S. has the most diversified gene pool, the best facilities and the best coaching," says Women's Coach Brooks Johnson. "It was a myth that the athletes are better or that the coaching is better behind the Iron Curtain. We're now getting what they had all along-financial support. When credibility is established, that's the last piece of the puzzle to fall into place. By staying away, they're just accelerating that...
...Socially, he is just now coming out of himself. "If you want to be the best, you have to sacrifice," he says. "This sounds so desperate, but I don't mean it the way it sounds. I didn't have anything else." Though Louganis has never pumped iron, he is as brawny as a weight lifter, and his legs are as developed as a dancer's. At the University of California, Irvine, he majored in drama and minored in dance, including classical ballet...
...still possible to offend anyone except the ghost of Avery Brundage and a few no-show Iron Curtain sports commissars by announcing the obvious, that the defunct Olympic ideal of amateurism has always been humbug? The prohibition against pros was not high-minded in its origin, it was high-hat: a snobbish social exclusion of riding instructors, fencing masters and the like who sweated for their keep and were considered high-level servants. It was intended to ensure that those who participated in this festival of running and jumping were the sons and daughters of gentlefolk. Other Olympic ideals...
...unions remain Thatcher's greatest affliction. The dock strike began after a nonunion worker was employed to move iron ore off the docks at Immingham, in eastern England. Though the procedure was routine, the Transport and General Workers' Union called a walkout. Union leaders pressed port employers to agree that nonunion help would never be used again, but the demand was rejected. Many dockers also suspected that the Thatcher government intended to seek a change in a 1947 law that effectively guarantees them jobs for life. The Prime Minister insisted that that was not the case...
...both fun and profit, Armand Hammer, 86, diversified his legendary business acumen into Arabian horses five years ago. The two top stallions of his 94-horse stable are the U.S.S.R.'s Pesniar and Poland's El Paso, both plucked from behind the Iron Curtain with the Occidental Petroleum chairman's patented blend of bucks and brass. Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski at first refused to sell El Paso, which he called "a national treasure," but a million dollars from Hammer helped change the Premier's mind. Hammer was in Florida last week for a show...