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...following days, records were broken, and reputations were made by such athletes as Babe Didrikson and Buster Crabbe. The most sensational events were men's track and field, in which new world marks were set nearly every day. Probably the most heart-stopping was the 5,000-meter run: Ralph Hill, a hitherto unknown American, raced after the world-record holder, Finland's Lauri Lehtinen. Hill tried to pass him on the outside, then the inside, and was finally beaten in a virtual dead heat. The largely American crowd was angry at first, believing that the Finn...
...time throughout history," said President Ronald Reagan. "There were many like him in the past-pioneers, soldiers, lawmen, explorers-people who all went out and put their lives on the line for the cause of good." Whom did he mean? An astronaut, perhaps, or a star FBI drug buster. No, Reagan was praising Agent 007 in a filmed appearance on a British TV special, James Bond, The First 21 Years. The President did not seem troubled by the fact that Ian Fleming's superspy also has a reputation for booze (vodka martinis, shaken not stirred), fast women...
...know about assault, but for battery they charge you and put you in a dry cell). The attractive, high-spirited cast avoids the twin pitfalls of archaeologist awe and camp condescension. And Lawson is a deadpan delight, a sad-clown naif in the spirit of Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon. Whether scurrying for his snooty brothers' clothes while muttering an ironic "With pleasure!" or double-talking his way into the princess's ball as an Amazonian adventurer, Lawson radiates working-class star quality. He is the best reason to see the snazziest revival in town...
DIED. Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, 75, former swimming champion and 1930s film star best known as the original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers; in Scottsdale, Ariz. After winning a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics, he moved to Hollywood, eventually calling himself "King of the Serials" for his intrepid science-fiction roles. Crabbe later became a fitness and exercise advocate, swimming a steady two miles a day well into...
...what Soviet citizens are calling Operation Trawl tracks down truant workers who show up late at the factory, Andropov is seeking to free his creaking bureaucracy of its habitual corruption. Since assuming office, he has reshuffled some 20 top officials and summarily dismissed six others. He pointedly chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone civil police with his successor at the KGB, General Vitali Fedorchuk...