Word: spitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the country, the over-45 guys who want to see one of their own make it big. I know beating a woman isn't like winning seven gold medals. But how many old guys are there in the world? You think they can relate to Mark Spitz? They relate to me, Bobby Riggs...
Olympic Champion Mark Spitz, 23, recently recovered from a case of hepatitis that doctors think he picked up in Munich, has not gone swimming in months. "I don't miss it at all," he says. "It was twelve years of awfully hard work and I got my rewards." One of the rewards−Spitz has signed advertising contracts worth an estimated $5,000,000−is a $65,000, 39-ft. citron-yellow Ericson motor sailer, which he bought to celebrate his engagement to Susan Weiner, 21, a sometime model and the daughter of a Los Angeles steel executive...
...hometown hero John Trembley, who must have felt a draft after shaving his head for the contest, turned in a very fast 48.688 performance to beat Indian's Gary Hall for first. His time was .7 off the American and NCAA record held by Mark Spitz set at last year's nationals at west Point...
...free, which Swimming World described as "wide open," Neville's 46.37 is only fractions off Charlie Campbell's first-place time of 46.12 which the Princeton star recorded in beating Neville at the Easterns. With the graduation of Dave Edgar and Mark Spitz, the two fastest 100 men in history, Neville could make the finals in the event but he will have to drop down near the 45.6 or 45.7 area...
...When are you getting married?" It was a question that brought a variety of answers. We just did: Actor Laurence Harvey and Fashion Model Pauline Stone, he for the third time, she for the second, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Next May: Olympic Swimming Champion Mark Spitz and U.C.L.A. Senior Susan Weiner. Sometime this summer: Boston Bruins Defenseman Bobby Orr and Schoolteacher Peggy Wood. Before the baby is born: Actor Michael Caine and Shakira Baksh, a former Miss Guyana, who said that they expect their child in June or July. As for Actress Jane Fonda and Antiwar Activist Tom Hayden...