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Hank Aaron did it in baseball with home run No. 715; Jim Brown did it in football with seven 1,000-yard seasons; Mark Spitz did it in a swimming pool with his seventh Olympic gold medal. Any day now, Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 44, will do it in horseracing, riding a thoroughbred to victory No. 7,000, setting another of sport's Olympian records for generations to test against. By week's end "Shoe," 4 ft. 11½ in., was one win away, and well past the 6,032 mark set in 1966 by John Longden...
...with coaching by Jean-Claude Killy at Val d'Isere, France (for a mere $4,325, not including travel and accommodations)? For the price of an airline ticket to California, plus board and meals, plus $115,000, the gift recipient can take ten private swimming lessons with Mark Spitz. Want to be the best dancer at the country club? Mitzi Gaynor will dedicate a whole day of terpsichorean tutoring...
...like swimming and track in order to avoid the "pro" tag which eliminates any chance of Olympic competition? The Russians do it by having their athletes live in comparatively plush quarters, eating the best food. Only our pros in popular sports can afford that type of life style. Mark Spitz had to capitalize quickly on his fame to get any money from his swimming. The question is how badly we want to be the best; we must expect professional responsibilities to take precedence over patriotism unless we change the incentive system. If we don't put up, we should shut...
...many glasses of milk do you drink per day?" asked a giggling teeny-bopper of the star. "Seven," ad-libbed Swimming Champ Mark Spitz, 24. Then he drank a small carton of milk-the way that Dean Martin used to toss off something harder -and launched into his stage debut at the Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, Calif. Backed by a fresh-faced chorus called the Mark Curb Congregation, Mark soft-shoe-shuffled and crooned through a couple of olden goldies, The Sidewalks of New York and A Bicycle Built for Two. Then he introduced his guests, National Hula...
...some 40 shops across the country that specialize in Earth Shoes, more and more shoppers-including such celebrities as Mark Spitz, James Coburn and Tony Curtis-are competing for limited supplies of clumpy footwear that defies most principles of shoemaking. Instead of sloping downward to the toe the heel of the Earth Shoe is approximately one-half inch lower than the forward part. The rubber sole, in turn, gradually thickens in the direction of the toe elevating the front of the foot and leaving the wearer balancing on his heels. "It's like walking barefoot on a soft, sandy...