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...extra element of excitement to Olympic competition: athletes perfectly matched in skill yet diametrically opposed in style and temperament. Fuchs, the consummate technician who has spent most of the past two years in a training camp run by a government to which she is outspokenly committed. Schmidt, the power thrower who trains haphazardly and who recently quit the U.C.L.A. track team to protest the firing of the women's coach. The two have one thing in common. The loser will not complain about her coach-Schmidt because she does not have one, Fuchs because she is convinced that East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JAVELIN & THE 100-METER BACKSTROKE: COMBAT WITH SPEARS | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...relative poverty 46 years ago, the 13th and youngest child of a potter in Staffordshire. His schooling ended at the age of eight, when his father died, and he had to go to work as an apprentice in a pottery run by an older brother. He became an expert thrower on the wheel, but an attack of small pox led to an infection and chronic weakness in his right knee. (Constantly bothered by the condition, Wedgwood finally decided a few years ago to have his leg amputated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince of Pottery, Josiah Wedgwood | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

Finals are almost over, but three Harvard thinclads have been putting in some extra hours in physics. High jumpers Mel Embree and John McCulloh, and hammer-thrower Ed Ajootian will all try to defy gravity at this weekend's NCAA T rack & Field Championships at Penn...

Author: By Jon Ledeeky, | Title: Jumper Embree to Challenge Dwight Stones In NCAA Classic | 6/4/1976 | See Source »

...Hammer-thrower Ed Ajootian and triple-jumper Ahmed Kayali also broke long-standing records...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: Harvard Track Team Destroys Army, 99-55; McCulloh Qualifies for '76 Olympic Trials | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...thinclads' other entrant in the event, Dan Jiggetts, did not place. "Danny's the kind of thrower whose balance is thrown out if his timing is just a little bit off," McCurdy said...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: Embree, Ajootian Cop Bronzes; Relay Tripped Up in NCAA | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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