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...Thompson had to clamber over statuesque 6-ft. 6¾-in. Jürgen Hingsen, the "German Hercules" who holds the decathlon world record. In style and personality the two duelists are a classic study in contrasts. Thompson the Dionysian, Hingsen the Apollonian; the fiery fullback and the shining knight. Thompson, an infectious extravert from a working-class neighborhood of London who blithely chatters away whether or not anyone is listening, treats the field of play as though it were an enormous sandbox. Hingsen performs without wasted motion or emotion, intently striking the perfect form even in his warmups...
...last played them." The U.S. men have not met the Soviets in the Olympics since the controversial 51-50 U.S. defeat in 1972, a delayed-buzzer game so bitterly disputed that to this day not one of the U.S. team members has claimed his silver medal. Said the victorious Knight: "We would beat the Soviets. They don't know how to play defense...
...different international court, under different rules; the men would face unfamiliar zone defenses that would force them to shoot from outside rather than dazzle with dunkmanship. Indeed, before the Games opened, former Marquette Coach Al McGuire, now a basketball analyst for NBC, bet U.S. Men's Coach Bobby Knight a dinner that his charges would lose. Said McGuire: "The way our system is structured, we don't have time to put a team together...
...surprise heroes of the team were two dead-eye outside shooters. Chris Mullin, a senior at St. John's University in New York, contributed 20 points in the semifinal. Steve Alford, a sophomore on Knight's Indiana squad whose selection initially caused controversy, led the team with 18 points against France, and again with 17 against a West German team that gave the U.S. its closest thing to a scare, losing by only 78-67. Two better-known players, Ewing and 6-ft. 9-in. Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma, at first spent a lot of time...
...London) startled executives of St. Regis by revealing that he had bought 5.6% of the shares of the big paper and forest-products company for $65 million. A few weeks later Murdoch launched a takeover fight. That sent the St. Regis officers scrambling to find a so-called White Knight who would save them from the publisher by buying their firm. Last week Champion International, a rival forest-products giant, came forward to do precisely that. Champion agreed to pay about $1.8 billion in cash and stock for the company. If approved by federal regulators, the deal will create...