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...part of the preview of the sights, sounds and statistics of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics that appeared in its July 30 issue, TIME presented closeups of several individual athletes, many little known outside their home countries and specialties. Nineteen athletes appeared in a Neil Leifer photo essay that showed each of them against a background of a national landmark. In addition, nine American athletes, participating in events like archery that normally attract scant U.S. public attention, were introduced. How did these competitors fare in the Olympics...
...contains a 38-page Special Section, by far TIME'S largest Olympic undertaking. Under the direction of Assistant Managing Editor Walter Bingham and Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, Special Projects Art Director Tom Bentkowski, along with dozens of writers, photographers, correspondents and reporter-researchers, put together a preview of the quadrennial event that offers not only a sense of its vastness but, in Ferrer's words, "creates a sense of focus. Our stories introduce a relatively small number of U.S. and foreign participants and work, we hope, as a selective guide to the myriad individuals and statistics...
...violent scenes, dropping Deborah (and her child by Max) from the 1968 section and giving Max a new way out of his climactic misery. Says Jay Kanter, vice president of the Ladd Co.: "We thought Leone's original was a wonderful picture. But the response to the first preview caused us to rethink the situation. Besides, at 3 hr. 45 min., theaters would be limited to just one show a night." As it happens, Staenberg performed an adroit, sympathetic salvage job, but to little box-office effect. The shortened America opened the same day as Star Trek...
...American Broadcasting Co., which bid $225 million for U.S. Olympic broadcasting rights and plans saturation coverage: 187 hours in 16 days. The stakes for ABC and its flamboyant news-and-sports chief, Roone Arledge, go beyond the outlay for the Games. The network uses Olympic air time to preview its fall programming season and to reinforce its image as the No. 1 sports broadcaster. Attracting a large audience for the Summer Games grew all the more crucial when last February's Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, for which ABC paid $91 million, proved to be a ratings bust. Viewership...
MARRIED. Andrew Lloyd Webber, 36, British pop composer (Cats, Evita); and Sarah Brightman, 23, dancer; both for the second time; in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England. They then sped back to London as husband and wife to meet the Queen at a preview of Webber's new musical, Starlight Express...