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When the Winter Olympics open in Calgary this week, TIME's own team will be on hand, reporting at the speed of a downhill racer, snapping pictures with the derring-do of a bobsledder and enduring late deadlines with the stamina of a cross-country skier. Our coach is Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, who will be supervising his third set of Olympics competitions from New York City. Ferrer demonstrated his gold-medal mettle as Sport editor during the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the Summer Games in Los Angeles. Now, as then, his aim is to present...
...meter, or EAR. A computer-age version of the old applause meter, the EAR was developed by market-research agencies to gauge the impact of a new product or strategy, but it can be applied just as well to political campaigns. Members of a prescreened focus group are issued hand- operated dials on which to register their approval or disapproval, on a scale of 1 to 7, of whatever they are viewing on a TV screen. A computer combines the results and displays them instantaneously to the survey takers. EAR tests conducted during several Democratic debates last summer suggested that...
...left-handedness doesn't stop at the shooting positions. Senior goaltender John Devin totes a stick in his left hand and his glove on the right...
...President Bok's right-hand men--Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 and Secretary to the Governing Boards Robert Shenton--journeyed to several cities to "discuss governance questions," according to Steiner. Steiner and Shenton pressured overseers to seek non-confrontational, "informal" channels for expressing their discontent about campus unionization, tenure battles, and the University's failure to divest...
Purple monkey in hand and grinning broadly, Arthur Hacking, a member of the hospital's facility planning team, stood waiting for the next traveller. Hacking said the move gave him renewed faith in what he called "the mystique of Children's Hospital...