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TIME has also managed some noteworthy Olympic feats. In its three issues covering the action, TIME has premiered a new system for transmitting color photographs that can reduce the time between shutter snap in the Los Angeles Coliseum and finished picture in TIME'S U.S. printing plants to as little as 6¼ hours. Immediately after an important shot, the film was processed and edited, then flown twelve miles by helicopter to Torrance, Calif., where Time Inc.'s corporate manufacturing and distribution division had installed a scanner to turn the pictures into digital signals. These were beamed...
...trials in May. For death-defying suspense, the spectacle of Gabriela reeling to a 37th-place finish was the most prolonged horror of the Games. She is a ski instructor in Sun Valley, Idaho, grotesquely adept at staying upright. Nobody in the Coliseum could either help, touch or help being touched by the looniness of the long-distance runner...
When last the Los Angeles Coliseum greeted a winning Olympic marathon champion, he was Juan Carlos Zabala of Argentina, in 1932. Zabala would have finished a poor tenth to Benoit...
...this is what equality looks like. Cheryl Miller, Kelly McCormick, Tracy Cauikins, Flo Hyman, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Joan Benoit running through the tunnel into the Los Angeles Coliseum and out into history...
...home, his family has set up house in Los Angeles. Mother Evelyn, Father Bill and Sister Carol, who will probably earn a medal in the long jump, are staying with him in a two-story white stucco house on a residential street six miles from the Los Angeles Coliseum. The house is a haven where Lewis can be himself, by himself. If he wants to, as he did one day last week, he can simply lounge around all morning in his blue cotton nightshirt on the brick patio overlooking a small, oval swimming pool. His mother, an excellent cook, prepares...