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...Olympic feat that has not been equaled in 32 years--Mark Spitz's seven gold medals in swimming earned at the 1972 Games in Munich. This month his countryman Michael Phelps will launch an assault on that record, and Spitz, 54, now a Los Angeles stockbroker and entrepreneur, is cheering Phelps on. TIME's Alice Park sat down with the man who set the standard...
...GOING TO BE IN ATHENS. ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT TERRORISTS DISRUPTING THE GAMES? No, and it's funny that people consider I have some special insight because of what happened in Munich. Nobody foresaw what was going to happen in Munich, and if anybody thinks they can foresee what will happen in Athens, they better call the White House now, because I think they'll find themselves a very important...
...WERE COLLECTING THE GOLDS IN MUNICH, DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE MAKING OLYMPIC HISTORY? I never thought of what I was doing as historic. It was just a reaffirmation of what I had practiced doing for three straight years, swimming the same events in the same order, over and over, so repetitiously that it was almost nauseating...
...leap over national priorities and prompt banks to reach across borders for merger partners, the better to compete with America's megabanks. But a funny thing happened on the way to banking consolidation: nothing. Except for a few small deals, such as the 2000 takeovers of Bank Austria by Munich-based HVB, and Unidanmark by Swedish-Finnish lender MeritaNordbanken, banks have preferred to merge with homegrown rivals rather than competitors abroad. Until last week, that is, when the first big European cross-border deal was finally unveiled. Banco Santander Central Hispano, Spain's largest bank, agreed to buy British mortgage...
...which allows him to kick 6 to 12 in. deeper in the water than his opponents. Says his father Arnold, a production engineer: "Mark's whole body is so flexible that the water just seems to slip by him." ... Said Spitz before the games: "I want to win at Munich and then quit. I never swam for glory, only the satisfaction of being recognized as the best in the world." Beyond all doubt, he has achieved that goal...