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Among the unknown Americans, Archer Rick McKinney won a silver medal. Pentathlete Mike Storm helped his team to a silver and finished fifth in individual competition. Single-Scull Rower John Biglow came in fourth, the women's flatwater kayaking team also placed fourth, and Fencer Jana Angelakis lost in the preliminaries. Weight Lifter Kevin Winter dropped out because of injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 20, 1984 | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Democratic Senators David Boren of Oklahoma and William Proxmire of Wisconsin; Democratic Congressmen Anthony Beilenson of California, Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana and William Natcher of Kentucky; Republican Congressmen Bill Archer of Texas, William Goodling of Pennsylvania, Willis Gradison Jr. of Ohio, Jim Leach of Iowa and Ralph Regula of Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking an Ax to the PACs | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...small d. That Mcdonald. Not the late Ross Macdonald, creator of the estimable Lew Archer, nor John D. MacDonald, inventor of Travis McGee. Why three unrelated Americans with, more or less, the same Scottish clan name should have written some of the best detective stories of the past couple of decades is, appropriately enough, a mystery. But Gregory Mcdonald is appealingly fresh and impudent in his tales of Fletch, the irreverent reporter, and Flynn, the Boston supercop. The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., Travolta could not resist taking the disc out for a quick spin. Much to the publisher's dismay, Travolta was still at the computer two hours later, doing daredevil stunts 5,000 feet above Los Angeles in an imaginary Piper 181 Cherokee Archer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Flying the User-Friendly Skies | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...years, he has watched the creators of Lew Archer and Travis McGee pick up all the applause and critical esteem. No longer. At 58, after 24 novels in 32 years, Elmore Leonard has finally won it all: money, raves and, this month, an Edgar-the Mystery Writers of America version of the Oscar. No more is he the hard-cover talent with the paperback rep. His most recent books have been phenomenal sellers, four major publishers are reissuing 14 of his works, and Avon has just paid $363,000 for paperback rights to his latest, LaBrava. The film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dickens from Detroit | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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