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Populist touches were also added in planning the Monday-afternoon parade. Governors unable to serve as grand marshals were urged to designate "citizen representatives" in their places, and more than a dozen did so. Some of the designees were already celebrities, including Astronaut Sally Ride (California), Marathoner Alberto Salazar (Oregon) and Chef Paul Prudhomme (Louisiana). Others were honored for little-noted achievements, including Arkansas Teacher of the Year Alfreeda Marshall. Altogether, final plans for the parade called for 57 floats, 43 marching bands, 37 equestrian units and one dogsled from Alaska pulled by 21 Huskies...
...however, named in a competing report issued by the four other members of the Agrava panel. The day after the chairman presented her document to the public, her male colleagues-Amado Dizon, Luciano Salazar, Ernesto Herrera and Dante Santos-visited Marcos to give him a copy of their version. They were coldly received. For an hour they were kept waiting in the dining room of the presidential palace. Then a grim and unsmiling Marcos saw the four "Agravatars," as members of the panel are known, just long enough to bid them a chilly thank-you. He remained seated behind...
...Athletics Federation ruling, U.S. amateurs were permitted to make commercial endorsements if the proceeds were placed in trust funds, to be tapped for training and living expenses. Thus Marathoner Frank Shorter could begin pitching for Canon cameras and Hilton Hotels, Kodak could sign up Moses, Decker and Marathoner Alberto Salazar, and everyone who was anyone in track and field could finally admit to having been on the payroll of somebody's shoe company since high school...
...cancel your birthday party because a few relatives won't show?" American Gymnast Mitch Gaylord believes, "They will still be the Olympic Games. There's nothing bigger than that." As Naber says, "There are still five rings and gods on clouds throwing lightning bolts." When Alberto Salazar and others ask, "Will children grow up dreaming of the Olympics any more?" Naber answers, "I'm afraid they will...
...into the Olympics thinking that winning a gold medal is all there is to life, I'm going to be very disappointed." But well before that there is the possible disappointment of failing to qualify at next month's trials in Buffalo. To avoid that, Salazar must first defeat whatever has been defeating...