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...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...
...glory but shame on Swimmer Spitz for his sickening lampshade wisecrack -from one of the millions whose aunts were murdered at Auschwitz...
...biggest lesson of my life in Munich," declared Australian Swimmer Shane Gould earnestly. "I learned how to lose." Could this be the same 15-year-old girl who won three gold medals, one silver and one bronze at the XX Olympiad-more than anyone else except U.S. Swimmer Mark Spitz? The very same, but last July Shane had carefully predicted her times for all five events, written "Here's hoping" underneath and sealed the estimates in an envelope. Back home in Sydney she opened it, found that she had bettered only one of her predictions, failed to equal...
...after a spectacular career at Indiana (he led the team to three straight N.C.A.A. championships and broke a dozen individual world records) and his Olympic triumphs, Spitz is altogether willing to be lionized. His thick, lank hair and trim mustache (rare in the crew-cut world of swimming) are badges of studly cool. Though he may act a bit like Bobby Fischer ("he got more money for himself, which he deserved," says Mark. "I might be doing the same thing if there was professional swimming"), the image he really hankers after is Joe Namath's. He also likes to think...
...Spitz still exhibits some of the same callow flippancy that has long got him into trouble. Asked if he finds any irony in his playing the conquering Jew in Germany, Mark shrugged and said, "Actually, I've always liked this country." Then he added, tapping a lampshade, "Even though this shade is probably made out of one of my aunts." Bad blood welled up last week between Mark and Teammate Steve Genter, before they competed in the 200-meter freestyle. Word got around that Mark, upon hearing that Genter had been hospitalized, had said: "Well, this may sound terrible...