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Most amateur athletes would agree. Unreasonably censorious and sometimes inconsistent in his decisions, Brundage has in fact been a controversial influence on the games for nearly half of their modern history. As chief of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1936, he dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett from the team sent to Berlin because she drank champagne during the Atlantic crossing. The same year, he countered attacks on Nazi anti-Semitism by issuing a brochure that argued that "the persecution of minority peoples is as old as history." Since becoming I.O.C. president in 1952, Brundage has, if anything, grown more stern...
Since her arrival, Jo Harshbarger, a 15-year-old swimmer from Bellevue, Wash., has had only one reservation about coming to Munich. The dressing rooms at the swimming stadium are coed, she explains, and have individual dressing stalls, "but the sides are so small that the tall boys can look over." As for life at the Olympic Village, she says: "It's weird but really fantastic...
...shimmering Shane Gould of Australia has already established herself as the greatest female swimmer in history. Using her powerful shoulders and a slow, two-beat kick that barely ripples the water, she has set world records for every women's freestyle distance from 100 to 1,500 meters. More than Spitz did at Mexico, cool, unpretentious Shane faces the pressure of proving herself in the tense, compacted competition of the Olympics. She is determined to compete in the four women's freestyle events and, if the scheduling is right, she may swim in three others. In short, Sydney...
...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL, is one of the most forgettable plays I've ever seen. A Neil Simon comedy, it turns on the ambivalent feelings of an All-American Southern belle and Olympic swimmer towards two radical Dartmouth grads who put out a leftist political quarterly from their next-door living room. Sophie Rauschmeier is her (unlikely) name; she loathes Normal Cornell, the sexually repressed but industrious writer of the pair of roommates, who is unfortunately smitten by her looks (and smell). As the disstrous outcome of Norman's amorous gestures, Sophie loses her job at a YMCA swimming pool...
...What Swimmer does capture is the casual communion between the musicians. There are three moments of particular intensity: Bob Dylan's natural virtuosity winning out over his nervousness, Ravi Shankar's astounding mini-concert of Indian music, and Billy Preston's spontaneous dance for joy in the middle of his song of praise...