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...angry exchange of letters following the dinner, Michael Schoor, a lawyer for the refugee fund, told Carl Russell "Spitz" Channel, the endowment's president, that the fund had not received promised contributions from the endowment and would "contact directly those persons who you identified as your donors and from which funds have not been identified as being received...
...compact, questing efficiency of the foxhound, with perfect respect for their actual being as creatures in their own world. Even when he did pets-as in Fino and Tiny, circa 1791, which is dominated by a superbly rhythmical profile of the Prince of Wales' black-and-white spitz Fino-he set down their complicated markings and baroque puffs of newly washed hair with a measured, objective enthusiasm that transcended any hint of cuteness...
...currents only he was able to find. He is 6 ft. 7½ in. tall and so thin he looks frail. His arm span, which on average should equal roughly his height, is an astonishing 7 ft. 4 in. He is the only male swimmer since Mark Spitz to hold world records in two strokes at the same time, and the combination of his success and his unusual architecture has swimming experts muttering in awe. His close-set eyes and long, beaked nose give him an expression of alert irritability. He is said to be arrogant, but before his first...
...course, no better than the people who control it, and ABC's reportage, although wide, has been less than deep. Gymnastics Commentators Rigby McCoy and Kurt Thomas repeatedly tossed off the names of movements (Tsukahara, Strelli and Hecht) without using pretaped footage to define them. Swimming Commentator Mark Spitz was only occasionally instructive; although shorter races are often won in the turns, neither he nor ABC's cameras demonstrated what makes a turn effective. Track Commentator O.J. Simpson added little to what viewers saw, although onetime Olympian Marty Liquori aptly explained pacing...
...international prestige and attention accorded the Games to stage propaganda and terrorism. While their vicious actions will never be forgotten, these actors hardly garnered any lasting amount of prestige of legitimacy. Moreover, most people still remember these Olympics for the heroic performances of athletes like Jesse Owens, Mark Spitz, and Olga Korbut...