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...absence of so many world-class athletes made for a pleasing unpredictability in Moscow. A judo competitor from the tiny Republic of San Marino (pop. 20,000) admitted: "It isn't the same without the Japanese. Even I have a chance here now." At the same time, the Games produced three dozen world records, the same number as in 1976, and some moments of high drama...
...that he rode the elephant for sport. To stay in shape, Sellers did a stint as vice-president of the London Judo Club and was never one to skip a few innings at the Marylbone Cricket Club. But soon the heart attacks started coming, the first in 1964, and then nearly every other year until Tuesday night, when his heart simply deteriorated. He slipped into a coma while lunching at the Dorchester Hotel and died four hours later...
Five years later, his house burned down under mysterious circumstances, and King moved his family to the 100-acre farm, where he raised peas and cucumbers, collected guns and practiced judo. As far as most people in Daingerfield were concerned, the Kings had dropped from sight until Cynthia, 21, showed up at the police station last October and complained that for ten years her father had been forcing her to have sex with him. She told the officers that she had finally decided to file charges of incest against him at the urging of a friend, Stanley Sinclair...
Even if these moves provoke wholesale defections among the boycotters, certain events in the Summer Games will surely suffer. The absence of Japan, West Germany and the U.S. will undermine the value of medals in men's gymnastics, men's track and field, basketball, swimming, judo, boxing, freestyle wrestling and women's volleyball. Boycotts by individual sports federations-yachtsmen from Great Britain and Australia, equestrians from France, Switzerland and Australia -will deprive those events of much of their competitive stature. There will probably be additional dropouts from the Olympics by individual athletes whose countries have decided...
...collage of upwardly mobile Americana. "Is it Manet or Monet who isn't as good as the other?" asks a culture-hungry matron. A father holds his little girl's hand: "What did you learn in school today?" She shows him: an over-the-shoulder judo throw...