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Ludtke is a recent migrant to the West Coast from New York City, where she reported for TIME on subjects as diverse as babies, heart disease and the forged Hitler diaries. Her involvement with sports has been lifelong. She rowed competitively for Wellesley (as did her grandmother from 1903 to 1907), was a reporter for 4½ years at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, and while at TIME held down second base for the magazine's Softball team. In Los Angeles, she finds "the ease and proximity of doing sports remarkable. Facilities are so close and the weather almost always so cooperative...
...estimate, the big chill is not merely disagreeable, it is dangerous: World War III, while not necessarily imminent, is more imaginable in the current atmosphere than before. Who do the Soviets blame for this alarming state of affairs? Ronald Reagan, whom they have recently started comparing to Adolf Hitler. The Kremlin leaders and their spokesmen have concluded that it is simply impossible to do business with the Reagan Administration. Soviet-American relations, they say, will remain terrible until the U.S. adopts a whole new set of policies under a new President. In the meantime, a thaw is impossible, the Soviets...
...accepted, such as the view a century ago that women were biologically and psychologically inferior to men, have been discredited. Other ideas, now generally accepted, such as the heliocentric notion of the earth, were once considered by scholars to be heretical. And still other ideas, such as those of Hitler's Germany, won some measure of acceptance in their own country but were rejected elsewhere...
...that's true," answers the stranger. "But taken in a historical context, three Olympiads marred by political disputes isn't such a grave development. History goes in cycles it has been said. In 1936, Hitler's regime processed the Munich Games into a format which only exposed his propaganda globally. And World War II prevented the sponsoring of the Games in 1940 and 1944. But, from 1948 until 1972 the Olympics had succeeded in allowing nations temporarily to ignore their political vitality. True, the 1968 and '72 Games had their political incidents, but neither of them signaled the inability...
...furnishing him with bodyguards, declared on a radio sermon, "We're going to make an example of Milton Coleman! What do [we] intend to do? At this point no physical harm . . . One day soon we will punish you with death!" As a gratuitous aside, Farrakhan allowed that Hitler was "a very great man" albeit a "wicked...