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Correspondent Steven Holmes has been reporting on the preparations for the Games for more than a year, including our October 1983 cover story on how the Olympics were being financed. "I confess," says Holmes, "I am a certified Olympic nut. I knew it when I walked into the Coliseum for the opening ceremonies. I was with Hurdler Edwin Moses, whose journey was interrupted every few steps by people wanting to take his picture-not only spectators but other athletes, all wanting to preserve the special moment...
...been holding fast with more than chalk, not even Vidmar seemed to mind. The U.S. exhibition baseball team was able to square accounts (2-1) with those Taiwanese Little Leaguers, all grown up, without excessive jingoism at Dodger Stadium. Swivel-hipped Mexican Walker Ernesto Canto pleased everyone in the Coliseum with his grand sombrero. Admittedly, that "U.S.A.!" chant can sound a little sour in a 40-point basketball blowout...
...board for three weeks of rehearsals and the show itself. It was enough to lure Anna Kuni and her twin sister Kana, who perform as the Cherry Blossoms, Redd Foxx's opening act in Las Vegas, ending up clad in top hats and tails, period. In the Coliseum they wore more. "We wanted to be part of the Olympics," said Anna, who with her sister came to this country from Tokyo five years ago. "We wanted to be part of that spirit...
...mission of peace. Carpenter thinks the doves mentioned in the Bible may have been pigeons instead. "I feel pigeons symbolize peace," he said, "and for an Olympic event I feel they are important in light of the world's problems." Carpenter, who lives 30 from the Coliseum as the pigeon flies, a serious pigeon man. He keeps 400, spending $300 a month on feed. He thinks "men who have pigeons relax and cope better with business problems and family problems." His very home, he went on, was bought because pigeons did not defy local zoning laws and because, once...
...only tossable item they had at hand, a rat-tailed pocket comb? This was a few days before the Olympics began. They huddled, faked, threw screen passes, ran broken-field, clutching that little comb as if it were a grail. "Man," said one, "I always wanted to play the Coliseum." You couldn't have counted the goose bumps...