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Navy's top swimmer, sprinter Rex Hand, will meet Harvard's top 50 and 100-yd. threat Tim Neville in what will probably be the best matchup of the afternoon...
...blue suit. Just back from a trip politicking for George McGovern and about to leave on another. Bond made a relaxed beeline for the bar, greeting a friend or two as he passed with a Cheshire smile and a handshake. At the bar, he snared his drink like a swimmer taking a racing-turn in slow-motion and continued to make the rounds of the room. As we shook hands, I noticed that four letters were written in felt tip black ink across the carmel palm of his right hand. The letters were "FMBC". I asked him what they stood...
...glory but shame on Swimmer Spitz for his sickening lampshade wisecrack -from one of the millions whose aunts were murdered at Auschwitz...
...learned the 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...
...Geours, 47, is professor of political economy at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, where he lectures from his own 500-page textbook. He is the author of four novels and a nonfiction book, Long Live the Consumer Society. He is an avid cross-country runner, swimmer and tennis player, and a former member of the national championship rugby team. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, German and Italian, and reads Latin...