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Regarding temperament, no athlete of the past eight years has logged more success or felt less appreciated than Edwin Moses, 28. After he and Mike Shine brought the U.S. both the gold and the silver in the 400-meter hurdles at Montreal in 1976, their joyous victory lap faded quickly. "I had a gold medal and a world record," Moses says, "but guys who had never competed in the Olympics were getting top billing over me." He reacted badly, and the popular descriptions of him in press accounts became "sullen" and "angry...
...When the Montreal excitement did not take, he perversely turned the early race into the most predictable event in track, until that became its own kind of drama. Moses won ten races in a row, then 20. "When I got to about 30 or 35, I remember saying to myself, 'Well, 41 races has been the most ever won by a hurdler.' " Since Aug. 26, 1977, Moses has not lost in 102 races, posting 18 of the best 20 times ever...
...subjects us to a similar analysis of his drinking and drug-taking. Nobody cared that Bill Lee smoked pot. One of the funniest things he ever did happened shortly after he was traded to the Montreal Expos. He told a writer that he "used" marijuana. The commissioner's office flipped out and sent a couple of stooges to investigate. He told them one of the biggest lies of all time: Yes, sir. I have used marijuana, but I never said I smoked it. I just put a little on my buckwheat pancakes every morning. They bought it. Even Abbie Hoffman...
...make his own watery contribution did not turn out to be true. Belize, Honduras and the Dominican Republic were planning a rain forest that has not yet fully emerged from the mists. Nor should visitors expect the sort of vast enterprise undertaken at the World's Fairs in Montreal (1967) and in Osaka (1970). This is officially a World Exposition, on the scale of the one in Knoxville, Tenn., two years ago. Alongside that effort, New Orleans can hold its candle proudly, and with a raffish wink that few cities would wish to match...
...Crimson also has some powerful bats. First baseman Elliott Rivera (.389, 39 RBI, seven homers) leads the team in everything except triples and runs scored. Rivera needs just one RBI to tie Harvard's single-season record, set by former Crimson star and rising Montreal Expos prospect Mike Stenhouse in 1977. Weller (.356, 34 RBI, five homers) needs just two more runs scored to tie the season mark set by Ed Durso '75. Weller already holds the career record for runs scored with...