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...seemed a splendid idea. To the glory that was Greece, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (L.A.O.O.C.) wanted to bring a touch of American grandeur. The Olympic flame was to be relayed from east to west in a scenic 19,000-kilometer zigzag across all 50 states, the longest torch run in modern Olympic history. Sections of the route would be "sold" at $3,000 a kilometer to sponsors who contribute to charity. Doing it the American way, the Olympic flame would arrive from Greece electronically. AT&T, which is sponsoring the Olympic relay, set up a system...
L.A.O.O.C. officials explained that the money from the torch relay would go to worthwhile causes, including the Boys' Clubs of America and the Special Olympics (for the handicapped) and the Y.M.C.A. The Greeks were not convinced. According to Peter Ueberroth, president of the L.A.O.O.C., the Greeks saw the relay as "some kind of honky-tonk road show...
...relay sponsors are as varied as America: scores of corporations, U.S. Marines, a schoolteacher in Wichita, Kans., and dozens of celebrities from Jane Fonda to O.J. Simpson. The runners will be, if anything, even more varied. Leading off the relay from the U.N. will be the grandchildren of the great Olympians Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens. But in Ventura, Calif., Hell's Angel George Christie will carry the flame, decked out in a regulation Olympic running outfit embellished with touches like a silver skull earring and lurid tattoos. The L.A.O.O.C. cashed his $3,000 sponsorship check, unaware...
...after a perfect spring season, it was certainly not a desired result for the Crimson. At Army's Shen Stadium, the Crimson rallied for two relay victories that left the entire women's Heptagonal field behind. Harvard ran the 400-meters in 47.81 seconds and the 1600-meters in 3:52.71. Both the previous records had been set at last year's Hops, the latter now broken by as much as 8.81 seconds...
Rosovsky drags Spence to the myriad committee meetings that fill his calendar, but he has not found the transition to be like a final dash to the finish line. "It's more like a relay race," says Rosovsky. "I'm still running, and I'm getting ready to pass the baton to Michael Spence, and then he'll start running...