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...days, gridlock. Los Angeles airport will quake with arriving jets. The freeways will turn to stone. Athletes will start digging into the 70,000 dozen eggs. The 3,500 construction workers, having put up the bleachers and the Styrofoam signs, will relax at home, ready to watch ABC'S closeups and moments of Olympic history and expert analyses. No, the hotel never got your reservation. Sorry, this ticket is good only for the first round of archery. The world will look at California, which in turn will look as laid back as Edvard Munch's The Scream. Yet the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Why We Play These Games | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...that it had nominated former Junta Member Arturo Cruz, who is expected to return this week from voluntary exile in the U.S., as its presidential candidate. The opposition insists, however, that it will not enter the race until the Sandinistas lift the state of emergency and relax other controls over the country. Reacting to the Sandinistas' announcement, President Reagan declared that "no person committed to democracy will be taken in by a Soviet-style sham election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Election Moves | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...year-old college student who works to pay part of my tuition. How can anyone tell me I cannot sit down and relax with a beer after a long, hard day? Susan Lee Atlanta

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1984 | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...amputees "feel" in missing limbs. Psychophysiologist Richard Sherman, of Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Ga., has found that the pain, which afflicts about 80% of amputees at one time or another, is sometimes due to muscle spasms in the stump. When Sherman teaches patients to relax the affected muscles through biofeedback training, the sensations in the phantom limb usually disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...spirit--as a recognition that we have made some serious effort in pursuit of equality and diversity, as a sign that you have not abandoned hope in what we can do, and most of all, as a gesture of trust in me and this University that we will not relax our efforts in affirmative action at a time when many others are relaxing their efforts around...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Prodding the system from within | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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