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...Marathon in Sacramento in 2:51.01. Thus by a scant .15 sec., she qualified for the Olympic trials, the oldest woman in the world to make the grade. Sister Marion is now training with her coach to compete in two months at the women's running trials in Olympia, Wash. "I won't win there," she admits. "But I'm going because I won the privilege of standing at the line with the greatest...
Organizers said they had raised slightly more than $5 milhon, that the deficit had been erased, that 616 Southern pilgrims were Paris bound, and that the time had come to "Laissez les bans temps rouler!" Harold Dejan's Olympia brass band, led by a prancer in a bowler and spats, bugled the revelers aboard two 747s and off they went, a "cou rouge" delegation if ever there was one, as one self-professed redneck exalted. They were indeed ready to let the good times roll...
...symbolic language, both verbal and nonverbal, to convey information. Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition." Painters and sculptors thrilled staid merchants with luscious nudes fig-leafed with titles like Venus Now Wakes. Manet's Olympia shocked the salon of 1865 not because she was naked but because she looked back at the viewer with the defiant eyes of a thoroughly contemporary Parisian courtesan. On second thought, said Freud, who is one of Gay's principal heroes, perhaps "a certain measure of cultural hypocrisy is indispensable...
...cloudy morning last January, the grieving couple arrived at St. Michael's Church in Olympia, Wash., to bury their only son. He had died at 37, leaving a wife and two young children. The parents' first anxiety developed even before the funeral Mass began: many of the worshipers entered the nave with cries of joy, and the celebrant, Father Paul Dalton, was clad in festive mod vestments. The rite began like a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, as worshipers were urged to introduce themselves. In his homily, Dalton reported that as the husband lay dying, it was the wife...
...Olympics. Others want to strut their stuff. Motorola is providing radio communications, and a spokesman boasts, "If this system were given to a third-rate world power, it would make them a second-rate world power." Buick will put out a limited line of 10,000 Centuries called the Olympia-and charge $406 extra. All the backers expect to benefit on the bottom line from the Games' luster and class. "We don't plan on having a discount Olympic Slurpee," says a Southland 7-Eleven official. "This man Ueberroth and his team," observes an executive at Converse...