Word: willingboro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life may be found too ordinary for his glory: born 23 years ago in Birmingham, he was raised in Willingboro, N.J., and trained in Houston. Where Lewis is a standard of physical strength, Jesse Owens was a symbol of human struggle, against not only poverty and bigotry but tyranny as well. Owens' father was a sharecropper, his grandfather a slave. Carl's father and mother coach track. "Jesse was the greatest thing to me other than life's breath," says Bill Lewis, a fit and handsome man in a cowboy hat, who prizes a photograph of Owens posing with...
...make sense. How could a human being do this?" He meant to find out. By 16, Lewis had old headlines pasted up on his bedroom wall, amended with his own name: CARL LEWIS, KING OF THE 27-FT. JUMPERS. From the age of two, he had grown up in Willingboro, where his parents had moved to avoid desegregation troubles in Birmingham and to pursue graduate studies and teaching jobs. Young Carl and Carol were the only ones with no memory of Alabama...
...boyhood. Back in 1968, when Carl was seven, Bob Beamon of New York City leaped a record 29 ft. 2½ in. in the Mexico City Olympics, almost two feet farther than anyone else had ever managed. But when Lewis was ten, he marked off the distance in his Willingboro, N.J., front yard and thought about being the best in the world. Challenging records was a family tradition. His parents were both collegiate stars, who formed their own track and field club in 1969 and coach at competing high schools. His sister Carol, 19, is also a ranking long-jumper...
Poland is a classic example of the "peace" being promoted by the pacifist movement. Anthony B. De Angelis Willingboro...
George Davidson Willingboro...