ay Johnson is rare concentrate of some old Sunday school virtues: tolerance, humility and godliness, none of which can be said to be gaining too much ground in this go-get-'em age. Johnson's kind of tolerance is not the diluted brand that sells so cheaply around the world these days, good only among people who already think alike. His is the real thing—by Voltaire's definition, the capacity to be tolerant even of intolerance. Photograph by John G. Zimmerman Text by Coles Phinizy Rafer Johnson broke the world decathlon record while still UCLA's Student Body President in 1958. Johnson retired from competition after winning a gold medal in his second Olympic appearance in 1960. He lit the Olympic torch at the Los Angeles Games in 1984, watched Dan O'Brien take the gold in the decathlon this past summer in the Atlanta Games and serves as the head coach of Special Olympics International.
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