Word: spitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of using the L.A. County coroners, the plaintiffs put Dr. Werner Spitz, a respected pathologist, on the stand. His testimony that the cuts on Simpson's left hand were caused by the struggle with Ron Goldman, who gouged Simpson with his fingernails, riveted jurors. (Spitz even offered to rake his nails across defense lawyer Robert Baker's skin to demonstrate. "We're not going to have any gouging of flesh out in my courtroom," Judge Fujisaki said.) Even without that dramatic flare-up, the cuts--or rather the assorted stories he has told about them--may prove problematic...
...best hopes for Atlanta gold in swimming. It is a sport once dominated by Americans, but today China, Australia, Germany, Hungary and Russia produce champions. No wonder Hall, a 6-ft. 6-in., 185-lb. 21-year-old who may be the most gifted U.S. swimmer since Mark Spitz, cracks his knuckles and fiddles nervously with a copper wrist bracelet--a souvenir from his first Dead concert. "I'm 10 feet from the top of the mountain," he says. "When you're that close, you keep climbing. It is within grasp...
...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...
...most dramatic proof of his theory, says Seligman, came at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, after U.S. swimmer Matt Biondi turned in two disappointing performances in his first two races. Before the Games, Biondi had been favored to win seven golds--as Mark Spitz had done 16 years earlier. After those first two races, most commentators thought Biondi would be unable to recover from his setback. Not Seligman. He had given some members of the U.S swim team a version of his optimism test before the races; it showed that Biondi possessed an extraordinarily upbeat attitude. Rather...
...link him to the most murderous offshoots of the antiabortion movement. After the carnage in Brookline, Massachusetts, for example, Salvi drove to Norfolk, Virginia, and allegedly blasted out the windows of the Hillcrest Clinic, which even locals have trouble finding. In his pocket was the telephone number of Donald Spitz, a Norfolk-area proponent of "justifiable homicide'' who has been a frequent protester at Hillcrest. Yet so far an extensive federal investigation has failed to establish a criminal conspiracy in the Salvi case or any other abortion-related shooting...