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...ZENON AND NADIA MATKIWSKY, 64 AND 54; SHORT HILLS, N.J.; medical-relief workers The husband and wife founded Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund in 1990, shortly after the veil of secrecy over the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, their homeland, began to unravel. CCRF has delivered more than $40 million in medical aid to "the littlest victims," still plagued by thyroid cancer and birth defects. Quoting the Talmud, Nadia says, "If we've saved a life, we've saved humanity...
...greatest champion in Olympic history won no medals. Baron Pierre de Coubertin wasn't even much of an athlete. But were it not for the diminutive French nobleman, we might not know the names of Jim Thorpe, Babe Didrikson, Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
...America's best hope for gold in women's gymnastics, the 14-year-old national champion wears her accomplishments proudly. But Moceanu's ambition is tempered by an easygoing attitude and sense of perspective rare in one so young. While the U.S. media build her up as the next Nadia or Mary Lou, Moceanu is keeping a firm grip on reality. "I want a medal, maybe even a gold on the beam." She pauses, then shrugs and adds, "A medal in the all-around." While neither achievement would place her in the firmament of such all-around stars as Comaneci...
...MARRIED. NADIA COMANECI, 34, first Olympic gymnast to score a perfect 10; and BART CONNER, 38, U.S. 1984 Olympic gold medalist; in Romania...
Jones, who first went to Paris in 1951 while a trumpet player and arranger for the Lionel Hampton band, later moved there in 1957 and studied with the famed Nadia Boulanger...