Word: coliseums
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...blinking sunshine and swirling breezes of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, clean and cheerful if never more than one-third full, the US. Olympic track-and-field team was determined last week in a stirring celebration of more than Carl Lewis, but Lewis most of all. Before a man can win four gold medals, he must qualify in four events, and Lewis did this with a flourish, though without posting any records. Fragile Sprinter Evelyn Ashford's gold-medal ambitions declined from three to two. Hurdlers Edwin Moses and Greg Foster rejoiced. Mary Decker found out she could run only...
...Olympic Gateway" was unveiled at ceremonies outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a gasp went up from the crowd of spectators. The onlookers' response was as much a reaction to the size as to the subject of Robert Graham's 25-ft.-high, 10-ton, $250,000 sculpture. The two towering figures were nude and, in the current phrase, anatomically correct (if that term applies to bodies that have no heads or feet). Two real Olympic athletes posed for the statues. Their torsos will now be well and fully known to those who pass under the arch...
...Zell, age 13, started her kilometer outside city hall in Manhattan shortly after noon, word crackled over radios in the sparse crowd that the Olympics were once more being seared by political animosity. Moscow had just announced that when the last torchbearer carries the flame into the Los Angeles Coliseum on July 28 and President Reagan officially declares the XXIII Olympic Games in the modern series to be open, no athletes from the U.S.S.R. will be there to compete...
...Summer Olympics, is drawing a chorus of catcalls. One side of the dollar, portraying a bald eagle, is pleasing. But the opposite, or "heads" side, contains no heads at all. It features the bare torsos of a male and a female athlete, apparently standing atop the Los Angeles Coliseum, the principal site of the Games. Sniffed Coin Columnist Ed Reiter: "It is quite possibly one of the ugliest coins in U.S. history...
...reason Harvard didn't win again Saturday was Paul Tortorella, Yale's senior netminder. Tortorella's 24 saves climaxed four years of stellar play against the Crimson. Last year, he shut out eventual NCAA runner-up Harvard, 5-0, in the Coliseum...