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...Swimmer Mark Spitz, then an 18-year-old high school graduate from Santa Clara, Calif., returned from the 1968 Olympics with two gold medals, one silver and one bronze-and a feeling of failure. Goaded by the press corps in Mexico City and supremely self-confident, Spitz had unwisely spoken of winning five or even six gold medals in the freestyle, butterfly, medley and relay events. "I tried not to believe all I was reading about myself, but I wound up believing every word of it," he says. "After the Olympics, I was more than disappointed. I was downright depressed...
...Spitz should have snapped out of it. At last week's Santa Clara International Invitational Meet, the Indiana University freshman entered three events and tied records in each of them: 1) his own world mark of 55.6 sec. in the 100-meter butterfly; 2) the American record in the 100-meter freestyle (52.6 sec.); 3) Don Schollander's world mark in the 200-meter freestyle (1 min. 54.3 sec.). Last spring, Spitz's sweep of three events led Indiana to the N.C.A.A. championship by 121 points. His performances since Mexico City have dispelled any doubt that...
...Mark is swimming with more confidence than ever before," says former Olympic Champion Murray Rose. "In the long run, I think those setbacks at Mexico City were good for him." Maturity may well be the answer to Spitz's comeback. By the time he was 18, he had won 26 national and international titles, broken ten world and 28 U.S. records. Everyone expected him to replace Schollander, who won four gold medals in 1964, as the U.S. team's one-man gang in Mexico City. After his disappointing Olympic performance, he underwent some agonizing reappraisals. "I realized that...
...Herbert Hoover Jr., 65, son of the 31st President, former Under Secretary of State (1954-57), and successful geologist and engineer; of cancer; in Pasadena, Calif. When his father entered the White House, Hoover was 25 and had already set about carving out a career; he made his professional mark in the scientific and administrative sides of mining. Avoiding politics, he sought the ingredients of what he considered a happy life: "The outdoors, far away places, and mining engineering." It was his mining experience that prompted John Foster Dulles to send him to Iran in 1953 as a trouble-shooter...
...this system were already in effect, the disparity between the undervalued Deutsche Mark and the overvalued French franc, the most chronic source of monetary crisis, might well be reduced. The mark probably would have moved up in several steps from its present value of 25?, to 26? or 27?, and the franc would have gradually declined from 20? to around 18? or 19?. The Dutch guilder and Italian lira probably would have moved up too, while the British pound almost certainly would be worth less than its present $2.40. The U.S. dollar would not have changed because...