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Some Americans felt more patriotic such as four gold medal swimmer John Naber ("I won by myself but for the United States") and heavyweight boxer John Tate, who draped a jacket over his imposing 228 pound frame which said, "Big Daddy Tate loves America." But they were not attributing their successes to the nation or President Ford either...
...sounds of pop music that their coaches had insisted be piped into the pool. They looked for all the world like candidates for a California swim club-but their training is a lot tougher. With typical Marxist determination, East Germany has established a policy of scientific selection for finding swimmers; it is based partly on early assessment of a child's cardiovascular capacity and body type. Great emphasis is put on weight lifting to build strength. The average East German woman swimmer was 5 ft. 8 in. and 150 Ibs.; not that much larger than her U.S. counterparts...
Ender, who started swimming at five and won three silver medals as a 13-year-old at Munich, has since turned in a score of world-record performances. Arguably the best woman swimmer of all time, she explodes from the starting block with such force that she is often 3 feet ahead of the field when heads break water. She dives shallow and planes high like a speedboat, with much of her body out of the water. Her motion is so efficient-though not stylish-that she is able to set world records while taking substantially fewer strokes per minute...
Matthes is equally complimentary. Says he: "Naber has everything a great swimmer needs, and at 20 he is probably at his peak." With Naber in mind and with training to make up for what was lost because of a May appendectomy, Matthes has been swimming six miles a day, which is his normal workout distance. He has been improving steadily, and expects his condition will peak at exactly the right time-the first week at Montreal...
...some of the young career men and women, Rosovsky's expanding bureaucracy has provided a battleground for a particular type of heroism. The case of Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for finance, is a good example. A record-holding varsity swimmer in his College years, Kaufmann has worked only for Harvard since two years after leaving the Business School in 1964. He has seen tours of duty as director of admissions and senior tutor of Leverett House--among other posts. Since Rosovsky's appointment as dean in 1973, Kaufmann has been charged with whittling the Faculty...