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...flatlands of Oklahoma who was blessed with an incandescent athletic prowess that placed him in the halls of fame of three major fields of sport: college football, pro football and track and field. When Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustav V, presenting the gold medals, proclaimed him "the finest athlete in the world." Said Thorpe in response: "Thanks, King." Six months later the medals were taken back and his feats expunged from the record books when it was discovered that Thorpe had earned $15 a week...
Noticeably more irritable since a Soviet sub parked on a sand bar several miles south of here last year, Swedish naval officials have vowed to force any future intruders to surface "even if the entire population of Stockholm has to rent snorkels and go down to get them...
...worries about finding a writer from there to shower with all those krona. One day Colombia will come up and Marquees will be it. Right now, though, he's just too young, Also, he spends too much of his time writing lefty journalism, In Stockholm, journalism in a dirty word, 14-1 on one of John "Here's some more Sophocles-at-Shea-Stadium" Leonard's faves...
...sunny Friday afternoon, two Swedish naval officers aboard a motorboat chugging through the waters near a naval base on Musk Island, about 30 miles south of Stockholm, glimpsed a periscope flashing through the waves. The alert quickly went out that a foreign submarine was lurking in Swedish waters, and within hours the hunt was on. Throughout last week, dozens of ships and helicopters swept back and forth across Hars Bay, dropping depth charges to try to bring the mystery sub to the surface. "We don't intend to pat it on the back or just follow...
...hunted sub was believed to be still trapped in the bay, exact whereabouts and identity unknown. There were unconfirmed reports that a Soviet spy plane was crisscrossing the Baltic, presumably to attempt to make radio contact with the mystery vessel. Whatever it was, wherever it was, Stockholm remained determined to find out, no matter how long it took. "It's a. war of nerves," said Captain Sven Carlsson, the Swedish navy spokesman. "Time is on our side.'' -By James Kelly. Reported by Mary Johnson/Stockholm