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...though the spirit of the athletes may not be deflated in the least. This is almost certainly the best American Olympic team in history, the first true team as one thinks of a team, convened if not assembled the year round. These 630 men and women, from Yachtsman William Buchan, 49, to Gymnast Michelle Dusserre, 15, are the long-awaited first crop from the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, the charter beneficiaries of the stepped-up Olympic job program, the modern training center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the newest biomechanical technologies...
...like Marybeth Linzmeier and Stephanie Elkins at Stanford next year, and he hopes that this new blood will help propel the Cardinals past the Texas Longhorns next year in the AIAW Championships. Hurt by the mid-season retirement of backstroke queen Linda Jezek, and the physical ailments of Janet Buchan, the Stanford aquawomen just missed regaining their national title in Columbia. South Carolina last month...
Every weekday morning, Mechanical Engineer John Buchan, 23, dresses neatly in a suit and tie and roller-skates seven miles across San Francisco to his office. He is not alone. The Bay City also boasts a roller-skating messenger service, skating grocery shoppers and skating mothers pushing baby carriages. In Los Angeles, Linda Ronstadt skated to a luncheon date with Governor Jerry Brown. On the boardwalk in Venice, Calif., a thousand skaters may appear on a Sunday, navigating perilously among pedestrians, while rolling guitarists serenade the sunbathers. In Minneapolis, the owner of Rolling Soles, Scott Sansby, 27, finds skating...
...genre has twin traditions: Great Bad Writing and Great Good Writing. In the Manichaean world of Great Bad Books, evil is always more compelling than heroism. Such works as John Buchan's The 39 Steps construct elaborate international conspiracies; Sax Rohmer's exemplary Fu Manchu series features a supervillain "with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race . . . the Yellow Peril incarnate." From there it is only a bullet's journey to Ian Fleming's Doctor...
...risk that the Arabs would underestimate the U.S. commitment to Israel. Some political experts stress that in a diplomatic situation as difficult as that in the Middle East now, a treaty might be useful. "The only effective and tested form of guarantee is an alliance," declared Oxford Professor Alastair Buchan in last year's Reith Lectures...