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...cheater was turned up?where else??in the modern pentathlon, General Patton's Olympic event, recalling the Soviet pentathlete Boris Onischenko, renamed "Disonischenko" eight years ago when he hot-wired his sword in Montreal. The chicanery of Sweden's Roderick Martin last week was less elaborate, trying to catch up on a neglected target by squeezing off two shots quickly...
...place in a ticket line. "Now I want to go to every event." It seemed that the only lines in town were for Olympic tickets; officials said they had already surpassed their $90 million projection by $30 million, and that sales were at 80%, compared with 62% in Montreal...
...crowd of laughing Rumanians, evidently not the soccer team, is kicking a spotted ball around a park bench. Nadia Comaneci, a guest of the L.A.O.O.C., is staying with her old team. "It is very bright and cheerful. I like everything very much," says the darling gymnast of Montreal. A Lebanese long jumper, Gabi Issa El Khouri, who could shave clear up to his eyes, is rolling them at the second most wonderful question put to him so far: Are Los Angeles and Beirut much different...
Until Aug. 13, when the athletes go home, the network will have little else on its schedule but the Games: 180 hours in all, nearly 2½ times the 76½ hours it devoted to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, the last Summer Games covered by an American network. This year everything is bigger, including the problems...
Most of the major events at Montreal were concentrated within a 25-to 30-sq.-mi. area, but Los Angeles has 221 events spread over 4,500 sq. mi., from the northernmost (canoeing and rowing) near Santa Barbara to the southernmost (the endurance test of the three-day equestrian event) at San Diego, 190 miles away. Says Barnathan: "If the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City was a 1 in order of difficulty and Montreal in 1976 was an 8, then this one is about...