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...more, the Russians beat Team Canada at their own game with what were supposed to be Soviet weaknesses: tough individual play and tenacious goaltending. Chastened by defeat, the N.H.L. stars roared back two nights later in Toronto to whip the Russians 4-1. Yet in the third game in Winnipeg, it took a last-seconds save by Goalie Tony Esposito of the Chicago Black Hawks to preserve a 4-4 tie. Thus it was a thoroughly sobered Team Canada that prepared at week's end for the fourth game in Vancouver, B.C., and the remainder of the series...
...however, Mark loosed a freshet of stunning performances; he broke five U.S. and three world marks, took five gold medals in the Pan-American games at Winnipeg and was named Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World magazine. That did not sit too well with Schollander, who was still considered by many to be king of the aquatics hill. Haines, who had been selected to coach the U.S. men's team at Mexico City, did little to smooth over the rivalry with his candid statement: "Right now, Spitz is better than Schollander." As Chavoor puts it: "Mark wanted...
Strange fruit from a man who once seemed destined to be a scholar of Hebrew literature. The son of a Winnipeg rabbi, Steinberg left home at 15 to attend high school in Chicago, then went to Israel, where he earned a B.A. in Hebrew letters from an institute for foreign students. Even then he had a happy-go-lucky attitude that put him at odds with his religiously zealous classmates. "I chased after girls," recalls Steinberg, still a bachelor. "I was just normal, but around those students I must have come off like a Nazi...
...newspaper chain; following surgery for a brain tumor; in Montreal. Bell bailed out his father's debt-ridden Calgary Albertan by borrowing from friends, then went on to build a multimillion dollar fortune through shrewd oil investments and by picking up other newspaper properties. In 1959, he and Winnipeg Free Press Publisher Victor Sifton joined forces to form the nine-paper P.P. chain. "The good Lord put me in the right place at the right time with the right friends," he once said, "and I'm happy to say we all made money...
...nickname of "Golden Jet" shortly after he started playing hockey for the Chicago Black Hawks 15 years ago. But 33-year-old Bobby is more golden than he ever was-the new World Hockey Association has just signed him to abandon Chicago and become a player-coach for the Winnipeg Jets for a staggering $2.75 million over the next ten years, including an immediate cash bonus of $1 million. The W.H.A., which calls the deal the fattest contract ever signed by a professional athlete, hopes that the superstar left-wing will give the new league instant luster in its rivalry...