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...operated on a lot of other runners, but I haven't seen anything as dramatic as that." James was in the stands when Benoit made her memorable entry into the Los Angeles Coliseum. "I got a little teary-eyed toward the end. I couldn't even cheer," he recalls. -By Anastasia Tonfexis. Reported by Dick Thompson/San Francisco, with other bureaus
...exuberant shouts and whistles exploded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Tossed paper filled the air, and traders battled their way through small mobs to reach their posts. At midday the ticker slipped 13 minutes behind trading. In mid-afternoon brokers paused briefly to give a cheer when another record for market volume was broken. At one mad moment a message flashed across the exchange's electronic bulletin board that a planned fire drill was canceled because of the heavy trading. Roars of laughter mixed with the buy and sell orders...
...room. The gymnastics just ended; the sprinters are on; next is volleyball. That serial focus is misleading, TV's accommodation to our one-track minds. For the Olympics are happening all at once and all over the place. Only the epicenter is in Los Angeles. A slick L.A. cheer infuses the whole-banners the color of coral, the velodrome's playful curves-but not even the city's flabbergasting sprawl could encompass this Olympics' venues...
Such thrills are the stuff promoters' dreams are made of. The whole night, however, is a carefully orchestrated show and still not completely a sporting event. The NFL changes rules and hires cheer-leaders to make football more exciting, but the hype and showmanship of a motorsports event is unique...
...Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund, 60 private volunteer bodies and the interests of 60 governments converged upon the broken land. In their eagerness to help, some groups brought in outdated drugs, woolen underpants of no use in a tropical land and, to cheer the refugees, Japanese children bearing harmonicas; in their ignorance, many pampered the very men who had shattered the country...