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...Soviets persisted. A mysterious knuckle joint in the sled's suspension was said to make up for some of the stiffness of the one-piece body. "It's a good sled," one member of their team said last week, and then added, with a grin, "when it stays on the track." The cigarskis did stay on the track in practice. They are so speedy on the smooth curves of new artificial tracks, like the one at Sarajevo, that one official of the International Bobsled and Tobogganing Federation thought they had won the technological war. "The Soviets have taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Cigarski Is Smoking | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...driving on the Grand Central Park-way in New York City with a recruit," Muzio recalls with a big grin, retelling his favorite story yet another time. "We turned on the radio and Howard Cosell announced NYU was dropping basketball...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Tradition Continues | 2/1/1984 | See Source »

...Interest: "Ted has very strong family feelings and does everything with dedication." Says Koppel: "Our idea of an enjoyable evening is dinner, usually Japanese, and a movie." His hobbies include reading, running, skiing and playing tennis. "I do them all at the same time," he says, with a lopsided grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: As Hot as He Is Cool | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show, NBC's Riptide, has something for every armchair technocrat, including a klutzy orange robot with a display screen in its chest and a silly grin on its mute face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cars, Computers and Coptermania | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...Nebraska football team strains its sinew in a weight room that Cub Scouts tour. In the foyer of this unbelievable expanse of sweat, set off by red velvet ropes and little curators' plaques, is a museum of the original Cornhusker barbells and exercise bike. One has to grin. Associate Professor Susan Rosowski of the English department agrees that a sense of humor is helpful. "There's a strange duality," she says. "On the one hand, we're terribly proud of our Big Red, but we're also a little defensive about how big it is here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nebraska, Plainly | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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