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Rosenberg earned his fine arts doctorate from the University of Munich in 1922. He had held appointments at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and had received numerous honorary positions...
After oberving the games at Mexico City, followed by the tragedy-marred Munich contests, and then arriving at Montreal eight years later to find guards with machine guns posted at all major entrances to the compound, the former silver and bronze medal winner is sensitive to the changing times and the politicization of the games...
After several years experimenting--often unsuccessfully--with the lucrative acting and endorsement opportunities awaiting him upon return from Munich in 1972, Mark Spitz, the celebrated swim star of the 20th Olympiad, decided to try his hand in business. While not yet approaching a par with his swimming achievements, the Californian is doing just fine as head of his own SUMARK Corporation...
...role of a sportscaster, Spitz stays close to swimming and the record breaking performances that continue to lower the once seemingly unshatterable barriers. From age eight to the time he left the sport 14 years later, Spitz racked up scores of records; in Munich alone, the butterfly and freestyle specialist set or contributed to a world record in every event in which he competed...
Security, understandably, remained a serious concern. The Village and the surrounding areas of competition bristled with small arms-not the ubiquitous submachine guns manned by guards that were so startling at Innsbruck four years ago (a legacy of the massacre of Israelis in Munich in 1972) but an immense arsenal of handguns. Even the security men working for the state's environmental-conservation department office carried pistols...