The Rev. Robert Richards was mildly apologetic for the stubble that darkened his unshaven face. "I always try to look rough on these days," he explained. But 5 o'clock shadow did not scare off his fans. The crowd on hand at Indiana's Wabash College for the National A.A.U. decathlon championship—the trials to determine U.S. Olympic contenders—dogged Bob Richards' every step.
Then the crowd deserted the defending champ and straggled across the rain-slowed track to watch a brown giant strip off his sweat suit. Rafer Lewis Johnson, 20, sophomore colossus (6 ft. 3 in., 200...
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