Something in the air : American passion and defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Free Press,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Roads to glory: dogs on ice, a third-string end, and Robin Hood
- 1968: tanks on the streets, dead on a balcony, and Audie Murphy
- Speed city: pineapple upside-down cake, "tutti frutti," and Jack Daniels
- Countdown to Mexico: lymphocytes, zip guns, and ROTC
- Boycott: Hells Angels, a petrified pig, and more Ralph Henry Barbou
- A desperate innovation: rolls, straddles, and an airborne seizure
- The trials: spondylolisthesis, brush spikes, and a brutal stomping
- Denver: the anarchists' convention, a vote for Nixon, and a cold chill
- Mexico City: thin air, fresh paint, and shots in the night
- Opening ceremonies: flag dipping, a family feud, and 6,300 pigeons
- And they're off: a grisly tableau, pinochle, and a guided missile launch
- Protest: licorice hammers, tommie jets, and black gloves
- Harder and higher: the little stinker, Beauty and the Beast, and Hollywood agents
- Aftershocks: pimped-out socks, a mutation performance, and sparks under his feet
- Monday: a grunion hunt, a crying tigerbelle, and a jig for joy
- Week two: a cuddlesome junior, a ragtag bunch, and a blonde in a beehive
- Pappy's boys: rateros, various Sarges, and a lucky picture of a pretty girl
- Going home: Boy Scouts, psychedelic mileage, and a black bra.