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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...
...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...
...liberty," he says. "Think if I lose. Does it mean that the Government can willy-nilly threaten harsher sanctions if a defendant doesn't drop the attorney of her choice? Think of the Spanish Inquisition! Or the Tower of London! Not everybody in there was guilty. Or the Willingboro Ten!" His wife Santa gently corrects him: "It's the Wilmington...