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After crossing the finish line, Coe knelt and covered his face. Then, quite against Olympic rules, he took a victory lap. His rival gave him a hug at the end, and Coe was like a child, bouncing on his toes and grinning. During the awards ceremonies, the British fans ignored the Olympic hymn that was being played. Instead, they belted out a chorus of God Save the Queen, with Rule Britannia as an encore...
...Sunday morning about 1940 when the Carter family was getting ready for church, Jimmy, then a high school senior, tried to smear down three-year-old Billy's unruly blond hair with brilliantine. When Billy squirmed, Jimmy threw him faceup across his lap and shook the bottle above his mouth. The top fell off and the hair oil poured over Billy's face...
...Managing Editor Jerome Cramer: "Schools are now asked to do what people used to ask God to do." The steady increase in the number of working mothers (35% work full time now) has sharply reduced family supervision of children and thrown many personal problems into the teacher's lap, while weakening support for the teacher's efforts. Says Thomas Anderson, 31, who plans to quit this month after teaching social studies for seven years in Clearwater, Fla.: "I know more about some of my kids than their mothers or fathers...
...familiar stride of Adam Dixon was a welcome sight in the 800-meter event. Dixon ignited the crowd by resting in dead last until the gun lap, when like a vision of Dave Wottle, he switched into high gear and accelerated all the way to the finish line with another meet record...
...more than an hour, the two men sat under a magnolia tree in the Rose Garden and talked. Yellow legal pad in lap, Jimmy Carter did more listening than speaking. They met again that afternoon with their advisers present, then by themselves the next morning. The meetings, as Press Secretary Jody Powell observed, were "very warm," and at the state dinner held that night in his guest's honor, Carter himself jokingly alluded to the admiration he felt for his visitor. "I'm thankful one man is not running against me," the President said. "How would you like...