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...separate paths through the summer track circuit, studiously avoiding head-to-head encounters while carefully selecting races where they have the best chance of breaking each other's world records. In 1979 Coe burst from obscurity by snapping the record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark of 1 min. 42.3 sec. in the 800 meters). Just before the Olympics last year, Ovett went to Oslo and marked Coe's record "return to sender" with a time of 3 min. 48.8 sec. They finally...
When the 1981 track season rolled around, it quickly became clear that this was Coe's year to write home. In June he broke his own world record in the 800 meters at a meet in Florence by 61/100 sec. Last week in Zurich, he broke Ovett's mile record, crossing the finish line in 3 min. 48.53 sec., 27/100 sec. off the old mark...
...hoped to make his latest vic tory a chain letter by breaking Ovett's 1,500-meter record as well. But a slow early pace kept him nearly 2 sec. slower than Ovett at the 1,500-meter mark (120 yds. short of a mile). Coe shifted into over drive. With a capacity crowd of 23,000 at Zurich's Letzigrund Stadium stamping in rhythm with his every step, he was able to make up lost seconds in the final 100 yds. to finish the mile in record time. He had worked during the winter on his already...
...shared the limelight in Zurich with American Renaldo Nehemiah, 22, who became the first man in history to run the 110-meter high hurdles in less than 13 sec. His 12.93 performance came after two frustrating years of injuries, a change of coaches and acrimony over his decision to drop out of the University of Maryland. Said Nehemiah: "This means the world to me after having a couple of disappointing years when I doubted my ability and honestly wondered if I was washed up. Now there's no question as to how good...
...left with the opinion that sexual intercourse occurred," on screen or off, inside or outside marriage. Monitors were instructed to jot down what products were advertised on each program. Wildmon then calculated, by computer, the average incidence of sex, violence and profanity that a company sponsored per 30-sec. commercial. According to Wildmon, the monitors were recruited mostly from church groups and were trained by volunteers who showed video tapes and conducted practice sessions. Otherwise their work was unsupervised. Wildmon's staff of two had little capacity to verify the findings; sometimes, he concedes, teams of monitors reported different...