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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many athletes don't know when to retire. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mary Decker-Slaney are two that come to mind...
...second volume of William Manchester's projected triple-decker biography covers the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II, when Churchill was indisputably right. Out of power and derided as a crank, he sounded the alarm about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. The story is familiar, but, told with skill and vivid anecdotes by Manchester, it continues to shock and horrify. Four times, by Churchill's count, firm action could have stopped Hitler without a shot's being fired; four times Britain's leaders, along with their counterparts in France, ignored...
Another aging American star also seemed to fade in Seoul's autumn light. America's best middle-distance runner ever, Mary Decker Slaney, 30, failed once again to win an Olympic gold medal. In her 3,000-meter heat, she gave everyone a surrealistic dose of deja vu by nearly tripping as she had in Los Angeles when she got her feet tangled with South African-born Zola Budd. Her time qualified her for the final, but did not put her in strong contention. In the deciding race she led the pack for several laps but faded long before...
When Mary Decker Slaney fell agonizingly to the turf in Los Angeles in 1984, a victim of tangled feet with Zola Budd, it seemed to be the painful end of an Olympic dream. The young woman, who at 21 began amassing world records, established herself as America's best middle-distance runner. But luck was never with Slaney, who seemed star-crossed where the Olympics were concerned. During the 1976 Games she was laid up with leg injuries, and she had to sit out the following Olympics because of the U.S. boycott. And by the summer of '88, Slaney would...
...rehabilitation. In many cases, highways should have extra lanes or wider shoulders so that broken-down or damaged cars, which trigger about 60% of bumper-to-bumper slowdowns, can get out of the way. In the northern suburbs of Los Angeles, planners are studying ways to build a double-decker section of the Ventura Freeway...