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...Selleck and John Travolta, move over. New hunks have just muscled in. Last May, the US. Olympic water polo team-including Terry Schroeder, 25, male model for the controversial nude sculpture at the entrance to the Los Angeles Coliseum-posed poolside at Pepperdine University to raise money for the team. The 15-man picture turned out to be the hottest pinup poster of the Summer Games. Priced at $5 each, the first batch of 10,000 quickly sold out, the second is nearly gone, and there are plans for a third printing...
...last marathon runner we watched emerge from the tunnel into the Coliseum was a Haitian with a lovely, euphonious name, Dieudonne Lamothe. He ran his last lap stolidly, engulfed by applause, and when he crossed the finish line he was the 78th runner to do so. The orange Halloween-hat traffic cones used to guide Lamothe and his swifter brethren onto the track from the tunnel were picked up; the tunnel was blocked off so that such scheduled rituals as the awarding of the final medals, the reintroduction of the athletes, the arrival of a spaceship, the performance...
...dancing in the streets of Bucharest. Yet Rumania's strong showing was even more welcome because it justified a decision to show up at all, disregarding the Soviet-sponsored boycott. If that were not sufficiently gratifying, the roaring ovation that greeted the team's entry into the Coliseum on opening day would have been enough to make any absent Warsaw Pact Olympian envious. More than any other visiting athletes, except perhaps the Chinese, the Rumanians in Los Angeles were America's favorite foreigners...
...trouble with "covering" the Olympics was that 10,000 journalists were doing the same thing. Anyone in Los Angeles with a slightly glazed look for the past two weeks was a writer trying to cook up an original idea. When the country of Burma walked into the Coliseum with a team that consisted of only one member (a boxer named Zaw Latt), 7,000 pencils scribbled on pads that Zaw Latt would make an interesting feature. When George Vecsey of the New York Times wrote a fine story about what he described as the "Burma team" (the Burma team lost...
...told him that she had already completed two one-hour runs. Says he: "I've 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