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...short kilometer to a point where he could admit, "This is more fun than beating Dallas." The great O.J. Simpson, 37, handed off to the great Michael Baily, 7, who has cerebral palsy. Lenore Nicholson-Woodward, 69, a bona fide "little old lady from Pasadena," almost overran the escort vehicles with her impatient heel-and-toe style. Back down the road in Louisville, Muhammad Ali had carried his torch too. In his book The Greatest...
...smiling candidate arrives, with spouse, by motorcade; Mondale crosses the brick bridge, spanning a small hollow that separates the house from its surroundings, to greet them and escort them inside; after about two hours, the participants re-emerge for a meeting with the press at which Mondale says very nearly the same thing about each interviewee...
...plans to beef up its local cadre of agents from 400 to 550 and send in its newly formed 50-member hostage-rescue team. The California Highway Patrol will fatten its regional 1,200-member force by 800 officers and 250 cars to help escort athletes in buses and dignitaries in 5 motorcades as they cross various county lines. In addition, 600 Secret Service agents and about 175 bodyguards from the State Department's Office of Security will hover around 3 heads of state, foreign luminaries and their families throughout the Games...
...lowed to take part in the Olympic Games. Under the I.O.C.'s new testing system, a representative of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee will contact all three medal winners, as well as a fourth competitor selected at ran dom, immediately after each event is completed. The escort will take the athletes to a doping control station, where two samples of urine will be taken from each person: one will be stored under strict security and the other will be analyzed in a $1.5 million laboratory operated for the I.O.C. by Don H. Catlin, chief of the University...
...Viet Nam veterans, many of them dressed in camouflage fatigues, formed up outside the Capitol, where the Unknown Soldier had lain in state for three days. The vets tried to join the line of march-some military bands and representatives of the services and veterans groups-that was to escort the caisson to Arlington. The police intervened. Once again, as in the war, there was a gap between official policy and the will of the grunts. Once again, some Viet Nam veterans were being denied the soldier's crucial ceremony of return from war: the parade, the public ritual...