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From nothing but "a cardboard box with $300,000 in debts, no employees, no phones, no plan"?actually locked out of its first office after a credit check?the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee has burgeoned in four years to something greater than phenomenal. The L.A.O.O.C. plan: Don't build any sports palaces, refurbish the Memorial Coliseum. Spread the Olympic Village lightly over U.S.C., U.C.L.A. and U.C., Santa Barbara. Dot the megalopolis with stirring events. "We didn't have the three top sources of income available to all prior Olympic Games," Ueberroth (pronounced you-ber-roth) says...
...finished form is still a year away, but in his studio a half-size cardboard model made by Hadzi's assistant Romolo Deldeo '82 stands as a preview. Once again, three posts of different colored six-foot tall granite blocks act as a base for stainless steel units on top. With what Hadzi calls a "mysterious, mystical effect," water will come out the top, disappear into the stainless steel, and electrically recycle itself. The water never reaches the ground...
...week ending May 21, the statistics from the Harvard University Police Department report to homicides, sudden deaths, or rapes; eight thefts over $100, seven thefts less than $100, one robbery, nine instances of vandalism, and one assault provoked during an argument over a cardboard box in a rubbish cart...
...example, came to the authorities' attention when they tried to bribe a bank president not to report their deposits to the IRS. Some South Florida banks, generally small, quiet and unadvertised, are notorious as money "launderers" Local cocaine traders are sometimes brazen, sauntering into Miami banks carrying suitcases or cardboard boxed overflowing currency. Indeed, the city's banks have been embarrassingly awash in cash, much of it cocaine profits. In late 1981, the local Federal Reserve branch had a $5 billion surplus of currency, more excess cash than was in the dozen other Fed branches combined. Suddenly, in early...
...delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives, tens and 20s. No talkin' or we'll bust your honky heads." Finally the Captain is at the head of the line facing a battered red steel door. He puts $150 on a piece of cardboard protruding from under the door. It disappears. "What...