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...doubt about it. Florence Griffith Joyner is the First Lady of track and field. By winning three gold medals and one silver, Flo-Jo surpassed the 28- year-old record of Wilma Rudolph and nearly equaled the four golds of Holland's Fanny Blankers-Koen 40 years ago. The sex symbol of sprinting made her most dramatic strides into the record books with a stunning 200-meter race. In her first heat, she set a new Olympic record. Next day, in the semi- final, she set a new world record of 21.56; less than two hours later, she obliterated...
...Karleen Koen...
...THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, Koen...
...Madame Binh in Paris that afternoon. (Heavy press coverage was anticipated.) Behind the stage hung a ten-foot-square poster of flag-draped coffins and huge lettering: "Is this what you'd call phased withdrawal?" Someone had tacked up three posters beside it depicting the imprisonment of Reverend Charles Koen of race-hating Cairon, Illinois, leader of the Black United Front. A statement on racism had been written on the left side of the huge poster. At one o'clock, Coffin, Fernandez, and other conference leaders awaited the overseas operator...
...year when the Rev. Gerald Montroy, a white Catholic priest, arrived in town from East St. Louis and took up his duties in the heart of a black neighborhood. He drew together the local N.A.A.C.P., a cooperative association and a couple of street gangs, and with the Rev. Charles Koen, a local black minister, formed the United Front...