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Over the past thirty years, a sprinkling of American Negro athletes has achieved international fame by competing in the Olympic Games. Jesse Owens is probably the best known for his four-gold-medal performance at Adolph Hitler's Berlin Olympaid. In addition, according to a recent Ebony survey, disproportionately high numbers of Negroes compete in American professional sports...
...many ghetto Negroes, better-than-average coordination is the only ticket out of poverty. Negro track stars like John Lindsay's Director of Recreation, Hayes Jones, often use the publicity of an Olympic medal to land good jobs, the standouts in team sports go on to play for pay, and boxers like Cassius Clay and Floyd Patterson win professional crowns...
...first Olympic gold medal in men's skiing, and its girls have not been golden since Andrea Mead Lawrence swept the slopes in 1952. The last bobsled victory was in 1948; the one hockey triumph was in 1960. Only in figure skating has the U.S. regularly cut the ice. Since 1948, U.S. skaters have brought home no fewer than six gold, four silver, five bronze medals. This year's team, chosen at the national championship in Philadelphia last week, includes at least three medal contenders, plus the nation's single odds-on favorite at Grenoble...
Died. Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, 56, Congressional Medal of Honor winner in World War II; of multiple sclerosis; in Washington, D.C. As a 31-year-old lieutenant commander on the cruiser San Francisco in a battle off Guadalcanal in November 1942, Mc-Candless was knocked unconscious by a direct hit, recovered to find that all his superior officers were either dead or dying, took command of the fleet flagship himself and so boldly attacked the superior Japanese forces that a major U.S. naval victory resulted as the San Francisco alone disabled a battleship and sank a destroyer...
Since then, Allen has captured two national figure skating titles and a bronze medal in the 1964 Olympic Games. He was runnerup to Alain Calmat of France in the 1965 world championships...