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With a total of eight medals, four gold, the most hopeful U.S. team had the smallest yield in twelve years. But if the numbers were dim, the moments were bright, and the attitude of the least eminent athletes from the quietest sports added to that. "Up in the air, I was ecstatic, I could tell I had a good jump," cried Jeff Hastings of the U.S., still aloft after finishing fourth in the 90-meter jump. According to their own scale of accomplishments, people doing their best rejoiced. There was enough happiness in the Olympics. No need to want anything...
...even rodding in and out of Johnny's Drive-in in his Camaro, he was not the stereotypical rowdy jock. "He was more mature than normal seniors, more levelheaded," says Tony Dinallo, his high school counselor. His mother says he was a serious boy and the quietest of her children...
...sirens began to wail while all Israel was observing Yom Kippur, the holiest and also the quietest day of the Jewish year. By tradition, tens of thousands of servicemen were home on leave; Israeli Broadcasting had shut down for the day. As crowds of worshipers emerged from synagogues at the end of the five-hour-long morning services of atonement, they found the streets filled with speeding trucks, buses and Jeeps. By late afternoon, virtually every Israeli-and much of the rest of the world as well-knew that what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan defiantly called...
...hour made about the quietest entrance imaginable. Secretary of State-designate George Shultz last Monday slipped into temporary quarters at the State Department, down a seventh-floor corridor from the palatial office still occupied by the recently resigned Alexander Haig. Shultz was barely seen or heard from the rest of the week. At briefings on the crisis in Lebanon and other pressing troubles by his subordinates-to-be, Shultz confined himself to asking questions and ventured no opinions. His only words to reporters were: "These will be my days of silence...
...woman washes her extended family's clothes in a metal tub. Another woman shreds cabbage and slices vegetables in preparation for the evening meal. A grandmother sits watching her grandchildren play as she mends shoes, and a man hunches over a chair he is mending. It is the quietest time of the day. Families sit together outside their homes, the women sewing and the men playing board games on the sidewalk...