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Heavy thunderstorms last week made matters worse. Water was rushing out of the Glen Canyon spillway at about 700,000 gal. per sec., more than twice as fast as normal. With Lake Mead rising to record levels, water was about to surge over the spillways at Hoover Dam for the first time since they were tested...
...hours later, Lewis proceeded to clock 19.75 sec. in the 200, missing the record held by Italy's Pietro Mennea by a slim .03 sec. The day before, his 10.27 time won the 100 meters (his best is 9.96 sec., .01 off Jim Hines' world mark). The University of Houston senior shrugged off his Indianapolis performances. "I don't worry about times and records. I'm my own competition," he said. "And I think there are going to be some absolutely unheard-of things coming from...
...powers far from their peak. But he may already be the premier track and field athlete of his generation-the modern equivalent of his idol, Jesse Owens. Last year Lewis jumped nearly 30 ft., but fouled by an undetectable whisker. Meanwhile, track watchers are already muttering about a 9-sec...
...world-weary epigram and convoluted conceit intact. Such a notion must have occurred to the English experimental film maker Peter Greenaway. With The Draughtsman's Contract, which he wrote and directed two years ago, he has restored the Restoration sensibility. Here is a comedy-mystery laced with Triple Sec humor and stately, raunchy characters who are bound, by their social and sexual pretensions, to find an ordained place in society's elegantly constricting design...
...diaries and turned them down, primarily because there was insufficient time to conduct its own investigation into their authenticity. A subheadline on Newsweek's cover asked ARE THEY GENUINE? and the magazine devoted several paragraphs of its story to quoting disbelievers. In advertising for the story in 30-sec. television commercials in twelve cities, however, Newsweek omitted that cautionary line entirely. In full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers, any doubts the magazine may have had were limited to a question buried in the fifth paragraph: "Are they real?" Said Newsweek Editor Maynard Parker, who supervised the package...