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...family's comfortable home in Sheffield, Coe spent hours discussing the boycott with his father (and trainer) Peter Coe, who owns a cutlery manufacturing firm. Said the elder Coe: "Often we would sit up until 1 in the morning, over countless cups of coffee, thrashing out the pros and cons." Ultimately, Seb Coe concluded that sports and politics should not be mixed. "It is a clash of two worlds," he declared. "Governments, politicians, are ruled by expediency. Athletes live in a world of natural...
What he did was stun the track world with a new record for the mile, still the sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a dozen top competitors but did it in a time of 3:49-.4 of a second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping...
...agency. At about the same time, a blond, friendly man who called himself Roland Kolberg and carried Canadian passport number DS 104277 checked into the Royal Gardens Hotel, also in west Beirut, and rented a gray Simca, also from Lenacar Kolberg said he was a sales representative tor Regent Sheffield, Ltd., a New York producer of cutlery and kitchenware. Nobody at the firm has ever heard of Kolberg; British officials say that no passport was ever issued in the name of Peter Scriver...
...family with two boys who have never been enrolled in school lives on a small farm in Sheffield, Mass. Both parents read to their sons, aged eleven and nine, take them on hikes and involve them in farm chores; their mother, a college graduate, also takes them to special art, poetry and music classes in town. "They decide when and whether they'll learn something," says she. "We help them when they ask, but I'm more interested in how happy people are than if they can stand on their heads...
...satisfy the local school district, this family has accepted a school "administrator" for their home curriculum, Sheffield's district psychologist Paul Shafiroff, who is responsible for evaluating the children's progress. The boys, he says, "possess skills generally equivalent to their grade level." Shafiroff notes: "More parents would like to do this if they could get the support of the schools...