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TIME'S correspondents, writers and researchers covering the 1976 Summer Olympics are obviously on the announcer's side, but some of them once had more strenuous thoughts. Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber, who wrote the cover story, recalls the time when as a ten-year-old she hid her hair under a stocking cap and tried out for halfback on the football team of her Evanston, Ill., Catholic grammar school. "I was beating this guy out for the position," Schreiber says, "so he pulled off my cap, and the priest who was coaching the team shrieked...
...then four and one. A series of devious moves, by way of Belgrade, finally brought them to the dark hills near the Austro-Yugoslav frontier. Leading his elder son by the hand while Agnes followed with the baby, Koco trudged through the night. "Once we heard voices and we hid in a ditch," Koco recalls. "We knew that the local people sometimes turned in refugees for the reward. We stumbled along for hours. Once we almost fell into a rock quarry. When we got near the border, Agnes couldn't carry Robbie any more, so I took...
...They offered to get me to Chicago, but I had heard that these people can rob you as quick as a mosquito can bite you, so I said no. One night, a campesino from Zacatecas climbed under the fence with me, and we ran and walked and hid for three hours, with our hearts beating like drums. But we walked right into la migra [the border patrol], and the next day we were back in Mexico...
...Moore, and the president de jure, the Reverend Myles Cooper. An ardent Loyalist, Cooper has been residing in England since he escaped from an angry mob of Patriots last year by climbing over the college fence and fleeing half-dressed to the Hudson's River bank, where he hid until taken aboard a British manofwar...
...described how Ronda, a former airline stewardess, behaved when Patrick was trying to deprogram her. "She was very childlike. In the car she would sing to drown out what you were saying to her. When Patrick tried to talk to her, she hummed, put her fingers in her ears, hid behind a piece of paper, anything to keep from listening." Eventually Ronda went back to Moon...