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...severely bitten by Ueberroth. In past Olympics, corporate sponsorships ran $150,000 to $200,000 at most and were something less than exclusive. Montreal associated itself with 168 official products; Moscow signed up 200. Ignoring everything Baron de Coubertin had said about dignity, the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., found 381 buyers for the Olympic label, including an official chewing tobacco. By contrast, the L.A.O.O.C. has held down the number of sponsors to 30, but the charge is a minimum $4 million for each (Lake Placid collected $9 million total), and in most cases that represents just...
...last time Congress considered a bill to increase the American contribution to the International Monetary Fund, the measure passed with only a few murmurs of protest. Today, three years after that relatively placid event, a similar proposal has inspired a legislative row and given President Ronald Reagan an annoying political problem. As 13,000 government financial officials and international bankers gathered in Washington last week for the joint annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, the problem of the dollar and U.S. interest rates shared equal billing with another pressing concern: the deadlock over funds...
...1920s, a spendthrift charmer named Tom Mount lived with (and on) Hobson for five years while remaining married to another woman. Hobson endured two abortions, one without anesthesia, before Mount went off to Tahiti to write. A six-year marriage to well-heeled Publisher Thayer Hobson proved more placid, until he stunned her one evening by announcing over the demitasse that he was leaving her for another woman. Looking back on that divorce, what makes her "boil with fury" is the thought that "any woman (most women?) should feel her life exploded into shreds and shards because a man leaves...
...estimated 175 U.S. Marines of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, the dusty field is home. One of several Marine contingents totaling 1,200 men ashore, Alpha Company landed in Lebanon more than three months ago amid hopes that its visit would be fairly placid. In three weeks of renewed violence, including 15 consecutive days when rockets and shells fell within the perimeter of the Marine encampment, the men have learned otherwise: all four American members of the multinational force killed in the recent attacks were from Alpha Company. Says Lance Corporal John Sexton...
...began his summer by "playing a lot of tennis" and reading at his house on Martha's Vineyard But the real high point of the season came later. On a 10-day loray into the Tuscan countryside around Lake I rasimeno. Even the name sounds placid, calm and relaxed; his days were spent, the dramatist says, "watching the mist drift off the lake and into the surrounding hills...