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...runner expects these Olympics to be his last as a competitor, but the subject may occupy his time for years to come. He is trying to complete a master's thesis on the economics and politics of track and field: "Every time I start to finish it, some joker of a country decides to boycott the Games, so there's another chapter...
...helped the opposition cause by giving the K.B.L. "a false sense of security." Still, the boycotters remained skeptical that anti-Marcos forces could achieve meaningful reforms within the President's system. "Let's wait until the euphoria dies down and the dust settles," said Human Rights Lawyer Joker Arroyo. For its part, the newly elected opposition hoped to team up with disaffected K.B.L. members to steer government policy in a new direction...
DIED. Jack Barry, 66, smooth founding father, producer and host of TV game shows, whose many creations included Concentration, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough; of a heart attack; in New York City. By 1958 he had four popular quiz shows on TV, among them the superhit Twenty One, with $129,000 Winner Charles Van Doren. Then investigations revealed Van Doren and other contestants had been coached. The resulting scandal wiped quiz shows, and Barry, off the air for years until he came back from near penury with Joker and others...
From the steps of Memorial Church, Womack called the Reagan Administration "a bunch of rich, arrogant, fascist warmongers, but nonetheless cowardly dummies." He added that the true motive behind the move was to "re-elect the old joker they...
Presidential Aspirant Fritz Rollings last week referred to his fellow presidential aspirant John Glenn as "this joker." Among the political cognoscenti that may have been the second biggest story of the week, outranked only by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's electoral tidal wave. Invective can be hazardous on the hustings in these timorous days...