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...dream. Antonio Zavala, abruptly awakened in his Chicago apartment, was really seeing the head of a boa constrictor pointed menacingly toward his face. The rest of the snake, all 6 ft. of it, was being held by a teen-age acquaintance of Zavala's who hissed, "Give me your money." Zavala prudently handed over $6. The intruder, wreathed in the coils of his accomplice, fled...
Susan O'Brien, 35, of San Antonio, the divorced mother of a teen-age son, feels as if she is being hounded out of the mainstream of life. Seven months ago, she was laid off from her position as a quality control reviewer for the Texas Department of Human Resources, which administers the state's welfare programs. Says she: "When you lose your job your friends stop coming by, and when you keep getting turned down at interviews you begin to have doubts, to wonder whether there is something wrong with you." This month her unemployment benefit checks...
...future of the Games "if politicians continue to make use of sport for their own ends." Steady as the Olympic torch, that sort of mindlessness has been passed from I.O.C. president to I.O.C. president, from Avery Brundage to Killanin, and soon, most likely, to President-elect Juan Antonio Samaranch, who sounds a lot like his predecessors. All owe their conventional wisdom, if not their tone, to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Games. Decreed Coubertin: "The essential thing in life is not conquering, but fighting well." The words are charming, and perhaps even true, but they have...
...I.O.C. also voted last week to install Spain's Juan Antonio Samaranch as its president when the eight-year term of Ireland's beleaguered Lord Killanin is extinguished along with the Moscow flame on Aug. 3. A former boxer who now prefers to swing at golf balls, Samaranch, 60, will resign this fall as his country's Ambassador to the Soviet Union to devote full time to the nonpaying position. Like most of his I.O.C. colleagues, the diplomat takes a dun view of the American-led boycott, but insists that he is "totally committed" to having...
DIED. Marcus Vinicius Cruz de Mello Moraes, 66, Brazilian poet, dramatist and lyricist who collaborated with Composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on the international hit The Girl from Ipanema and on the musical drama Orfeu da Conceição, which became the basis for the film Black Orpheus; of a lung ailment; in Rio de Janeiro. Moraes served in Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night...