Rome 1960 (book)

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name = Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World


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author = David Maraniss
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subject = 1960 Summer Olympics
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publisher = Simon & Schuster
pub_date = July 2008
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pages = 478
isbn = 1416534075
oclc = 214066042
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Pulitzer Prize winner author David Maraniss has had his 478 page book published in 2008: 'Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World' through publisher Simon & Schuster of New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney in July, 2008.

Errata to the text of the first edition, hardcover

* Page 201 correction: Actor Louis (Bob) Faust [Pearblossom, California] [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269262/filmoyear Louis Faust, by year Filmography] ] separated from his wife Amelia with comprehensive care for his children; he found suitable homes for each of his six living children before separating; one child had died at birth, the fourth. His wife was not pregnant at the time; he returned after eight years and joined his wife Amelia to conceive their eighth child JoAnn Faust who died at age 33. [ [http://josephfaust.com/familyhistory/Rome1960.html Olympics of 1960] ]

* Pages 189, 190, and 203 correction: The sequence and heights need correction. There was a morning preliminaries for the high jump event. Jumpers who cleared the morning's preliminary qualifying height were admitted to the afternnoon Finals. Joe Faust [ [http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1074490/index.htm The Coaches View Brumel And Some U.S. Rivals] ] did clear the qualifying height of 6' 6 3/4" in the morning session on his first try [Page 76f, chapter: Joe Faust: The Joy of flight, in book "Belly Roll: the Straddle Style of High Jumping and its Impact on the Sport of Track & Field" by Geoffrey Nelson [http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:a72xuEAh4BYJ:answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20080322164857AAdqmQI+%22Belly+Roll%22+Nelson+straddle&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us What happened to Geoff Nelson ("History of the Belly Roll")? - Yahoo! Answers] who writes and lives in Southern California. ] ; in doing so, he moved to the afternoon Finals where he cleared the opening bar of 6' 4 3/4". The spasms from the nerve injury were extreme; at the next bar, he took the three permitted tries to complete the competition in the finals. He did not just step away; he completed all possible jumps. [ [http://josephfaust.com/familyhistory/Rome1960.html Olympics of 1960] ]

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