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Suddenly it came. "Da sheontee kono meki no sienti holay coriente no sheonte mees . . ." said one of the women in a cool, musical voice. She continued for about a minute to utter these sounds, meaningless in any known language. No one glanced up or spoke. After a minute or two of silence, she "interpreted" what she had said: "The Lord thy God says unto thee that he is here in the midst of thee . . . When you pray, fear not. He is with you always, and his love surrounds you like a fleecy cloud. Thus saith the Lord." This was greeted...
...resident of Hawaii, Kono was so asthmatic as a child that his worried mother tried such Oriental remedies as burning small amounts of fluff directly against his body. In 1945, while he and his family were quartered in a wartime relocation camp, Kono began fooling around with weights, soon rid himself of the asthma, changed from a 105-lb. weakling into a genuine Atlas...
Confidence. To Tommy Kono, the secret lies in the power of positive thinking. "Successful weight lifting is not in the body," says Kono. "It's in the mind. You have to strengthen your mind to shut out everything-the man with the camera, the laugh or cough in the audience. You can lift as much as you believe you can. Your body can do what you will...
Doubt. A medical technician, Kono stokes himself on vitamin pills, minerals and protein tablets. To gain weight, he eats five meals a day while varying the menu from Chinese to Japanese to Italian to American. Bachelor Kono's diligence draws high praise from Bob Hoffman, vice chairman of the A.A.U. weight-lifting committee: "Kono is dedicated. Others get married, bring their wives to contests. You can't win that way. If a wife is cooperative and accepts the fact that bar bells come first, a weight lifter might succeed. Otherwise,, there is no place for a wife...
...frank moments Kono admits that he is about fed up with weight lifting: "At the start it was joy. Now it's an ordeal. I'm a special target of the Russians. I'm always under pressure to defend a title or break a record." In fact, Kono is talking of quitting after this year. To ease his ennui in the meantime, he bends nails with his fingers, drives spikes into boards with his fist, blows up hot-water bottles until they burst, and looks forward to the Olympics-when he will have the chance to become...