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...plaza leading to the basketball venue in the gritty Barcelona suburb of Badalona is free of T-shirt hawkers, ticket scalpers and the sunburned masses sporting Cleveland Indians caps and L.A. Raiders shorts. The basketball junkies from the land of Johnson, Jordan, Bird and Barkley are still asleep. But inside the arena, there are large men, graceful and lithe, already hard at work. Their goals: silver, bronze or merely a good finish in the basketball tournament...
...athletes weren't the only ones piling up the medals in Barcelona. TIME's art critic Robert Hughes also excelled when he was awarded the first prize for literature in the Olimpiada Cultural. In a ceremony at the Palacio | de la Zarzuela, Hughes was honored by the government of Catalonia for his book Barcelona. The prize, which was presented by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain, included a bronze Miro trophy...
...Barcelona, the daily work of seven photographers will be reviewed by associate picture editor MaryAnne Golon, Paris-based picture editor Barbara Nagelsmith and picture researcher Mary Worrell Bousquette. Imaging specialist Kin Wah Lam will transmit the edited selections to picture editor Michele Stephenson and assistant picture editors Karen Zakrison and Eleanor Taylor. A new Eastman Kodak 2035 scanner will be used to send pictures to us here at headquarters in a mere 45 seconds. The editors will sift through these low- resolution "first drafts" and pick the photos to be sent via satellite to them in publishable form...
...operations before joining TIME in 1988. Over the years, his job has grown from one primarily involved with logistics and coordination to the greater challenge of integrating electronic photo transmission into our operations. The new workstations aren't the only reason Kevin will be working under less pressure in Barcelona. His wife Barbara was due to give birth to their second child only two days after the opening ceremonies in Albertville last February, and he faced a harrowing round-trip journey to attend the birth. Happily, the McVeas' son Kyle decided to make his debut a bit early...
OLYMPICS: Curtain's Up in Barcelona...