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...living, salty-tongued men. Most of his closest advisers today fit that description, as did many of the men with whom he served on submarines. The spartan life aboard a submarine-the absence of many diversions-also appealed to Carter's love of work and problem solving in splendid isolation...
...McCurdy's mind, though, the only really significant factor was the performance of his team, which he termed "really splendid. We exceeded our expectations against this caliber of competition...
...dreamy, love-struck manner of a man talking about the sloop he is going to buy when he finishes putting his kids through college. To honor death, he wore a black carnation in his buttonhole. He saw suicide as a triumphant adventure, as a poet's most splendid poem, as a giggle, as a glorious stunt and especially as an explosive union with the godhead...
...come a Yellow Springs, Ohio, advertising man named Roger Brucker, and Richard Watson, a philosophy professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to explain the damp fascinations of caving ("spelunking" seems to be a word not much used by cavers). Their book is a splendid armchair challenge, properly made, properly obsessive. For non-cavers who read it, the sensation of being trapped in Mother Earth's vermiform appendix is persuasively real, and the impulse to run gasping into the open air is strong...
...golds. The U.S. bagged six, the same as Munich and down six from the halcyon days of Mexico City. Which made it fitting that, with two weeks of successes behind them, an East German enjoyed the Olympics' last lap. Marathon Winner Waldemar Cierpinski circled the Stadium in splendid isolation, well ahead of favored Frank Shorter...