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American gymnastics has taken a giant flip backward since 1984. The team that won 16 medals in Los Angeles is unlikely to win any in Seoul. What happened? East bloc athletes aside, the difference is injuries, inexperience and infighting. Men's Coach Abie Grossfeld admits that "1984 was special. We won't have a group like that again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Gym Shorts: Oops and Out For the U.S. | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Gerstell said that both candidates have flip-flopped on the issues, but said that the Travaglini grassroots claim "is at least credible. What you got in LoPresti is someone who relates to lobbyists and not to people," she said...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: LoPresti to Face Travaglini | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...morning of last April 4, Reza was lying down on his hospital bed, flipping TV channels with the remote-control device while Dr. Frankel and Dr. Wallace Lehman, the chief pediatric orthopedic surgeon, were discussing the procedure. Occasionally, Reza would turn his gaze from the set, which was on a rack near the ceiling, to the window, with its view of drab gray apartment buildings, not sky. The family was looking on. "We'll make a cut here, and one here, if we can," said Dr. Frankel, drawing imaginary lines across the top and the bottom of Reza's right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: A Boy Towers Tall | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Some hobbyists enjoy the strange mix of oddly dignified and unsavory characters found in a flip-side world. Others like the colorful road names and don't-look-back life-style. Hopkins is "Santa Fe Bo." Tudor Williams is "Wanderin' Wills." Real hoboes they know include a man named "Wild, Wild Wes," who rides with a crow perched on his shoulder, and "Pepsodent Pete," who quit dentistry for the rails. Then there are those who may be starting the life. Thad ("Thunder") Thorton, 22, sits by the Colorado River and talks of being a late child of parents who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoboes From High-Rent Districts | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

Words need not be spoken for an officer's honor to be impugned. A flip of the middle finger could cost $855. And if any of Bavaria's road demons think that being friendly will help them, they should think again. Those found . guilty of addressing police with the familiar Du rather than the more formal Sie are fined an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Curses! Fined Again | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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