Show He was a champ for the US in 1956 'and she was a star from behind the re the By PEER J OPPENHEIMER - Dkckmbzx 1956 two Olympic champions— one from the United Suites the other from behind the Iron Curtain-f- ell in love while competing at die summer Olympics in Melbourne Australia But for Harold Vincent Connolly of Boston Mm who won the hammer-thro- w event and for Olga Fikotova who walked away with the honors In the discus competition the future looked dark She was denied permission to leave her native Czechoslovakia to marry him Harold followed Olga to Prague and for three weeks pleaded with officials to let him take her to his country Finally sympathetic world opinion on both sides of the Iron Curtain forced officials to change their stand Three weeks after Harold arrived in Prague and a day before his visa expired their public wedding was witnessed with more enthusiasm by the local population than any similar event since early postwar days And then the young couple dropped out of sight What has become of them? ' I found the answers in an exclusive interview for family weikly when I met them in Santa Monica Calif shortly before they left for Europe to participate in the Olympics again— this time as members of the same team Olga who Iar KEEP - has just won her American citizenship is now eligible to compete for the Stars- and Stripes Two weeks after Harold and Olga arrived in the United States he went back to teaching English and social studies at a Boston high school while she tried to resume her medical training Unfortunately there was one major problem: Olga couldn’t understand a single word! "Her English was so poor" Harold recalls "that when she came here she could understand only me " A 'few months after settling in Boston Harold and Olga flew to Los Angeles to participate in a track meet at the Los Angeles Coliseum Olga fell in love with California and kept after Harold to move West He soon gave in A friend and fellow Olympic athlete Parry O’Brien who is the' assistant manager of a Beverly Hills bank got Harold a job as ninth-graEnglish teacher at John Adams Junior High School in Santa Monica an apartment they could afford and enough furniture to get by By this time Olga had progressed sufficiently in English to accept a job as a laboratory technician at UCLA’s medical school research department attend citizenship classes at night xnd take a course in biochemistry which she hopes will enable her to pass die National Medical Board Examinations and enroll at the UCLA medical school in the near de with thefreedom Tampax brings There’s not a day this summer that you cant feel cool and fresh and comfortable Not a day you can’t shower soak in the tub or swim Not a day you can’t wear the slimmest of skirts the shortest shorts Harold and Olga Connolly who married only three weeks after they met during the '56 Olympic Games now have 7“ That’s how it is with wonderful Tampax internal unitary protection Invisible and unfelt once in placeTampax inserts easily quickly th and properly by means of a applicator Rids you of clumsy belts and pads K -- rr Jfcf satin-smoo- Also with Tampax odor can't form Dispoul is quick and simple Spares hide away in your handbag! For real summer comfort turn to ' Tampax this month Buy Tampax wherever such products are sold in Regular Super Junior absorbencies only 451 for vi’jk ay? package of 10 Tampax Incorporated Palmer Massachusetts- - )) & -- Imenttibya MllUomt now Mtd b of women year-ol- d sonMark |