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Neither a smoker nor a drinker, Duarte has had scant time for his favorite sport of basketball. For exercise, he often takes a stroll after lunch around the presidential compound accompanied by his omnipresent bodyguards. "Nappo," as friends call him, dabbles at landscape painting, but he seeks relaxation mainly in talking politics with cronies or with Inés, his wife of 35 years. Sometimes he seeks out one of his six grown children for political advice: Alejandro, 33, is mayor of San Salvador, a job the elder Duarte held for six years...
...pace of the talks quickened last week, the two sides remained far apart. GM and Ford delivered initial proposals that made scant reference to either guaranteed job security or wage hikes, two key worker issues. Complained Stephen Yokich, the U.A.W. chief Ford bargainer: "We're not playing in the same ballpark." In response, the U.A.W. executive board declared both GM and Ford to be potential strike targets, holding open the option of later zeroing in on one firm if bargaining strategy so dictated. Pulling workers off the assembly lines at even a single company could prove costly; when...
...weirder than people at a formal party anywhere, except perhaps the faces of the women, which looked as if they had been worked on for days. Couples glanced furtively at other couples, flashed grins, hugged decorously, waved modestly, hailed one another not too loudly. They paid only scant attention to the animals in whose presence they chatted vigorously. The elephant looked lost in thought. It was more sophisticated than the baby elephant seen in Neiman-Marcus later in the week, over whom shoppers gooed. If I had arrived earlier at the closet lady's party, I would have seen...
...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...
...long jump. This is the first activity of most workouts. But Lewis does not normally jump in practice; he merely runs through the paces of his approach. This final workout lasts 40 min. During that time, he takes only three runs. He is in action for a scant total of 30 sec. But Tellez, as serene as his student, intends the last few workouts for fine-tuning, not of the body so much as of the mind. Until now Lewis felt that his efforts had been 99% physical, a mere 1% psychological. "At the Olympics it is 100% mental...