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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left." Not true; she had enough to win the silver, which contrasted nicely with the gold she had won two days before in the 400-meter freestyle relay. Properly viewed, however, her 50-meter charge was a wait-till-next-year statement. Johnson will be stronger next year, maybe bigger. Wait till then. And just wait, the swim buff thinks, till 1988! -ByJohnSkow. Reported by Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Tidal Wave off Winners | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...share an emotional experience. ABC has faced in the Summer Olympics the most complex task ever undertaken by an American network: it has committed technical bobbles, interpretive inanities and excessive cheerleading for the home team. Yet on the whole it has provided TV at its best, for an audience bigger than almost anyone had hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Made-for-TV Extravaganza | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...dead no longer: several hundred thousand Cairenes have established homes among and even inside the tombs. "It is not like everyone thinks," says Abdullah Mahmoud, 65, who has been living in one of these vaults for 30 years. His wife and six children live there too. "These tombs are bigger than apartments that people would find in the city, if they could find any. Many people here have telephones, cars, even video machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And If Mexico City Seems Bad... | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

Maybe I buy a bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 6, 1984 | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...athletes go home, the network will have little else on its schedule but the Games: 180 hours in all, nearly 2½ times the 76½ hours it devoted to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, the last Summer Games covered by an American network. This year everything is bigger, including the problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: ABC Leaps for Gold Ratings | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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