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...problems began in America--not in Salt Lake, but in Los Angeles. The 1976 Montreal Games had dutifully lost millions of dollars, and the 1980 Moscow Games, boycotted by the U.S., didn't make a ruble. The Winter Games, always staged in nice little Currier & Ives villages, had seldom turned a profit. Therefore, naturally, no sane city wanted to play host to the Games. Then, in 1984, Peter Ueberroth and his Los Angeles organizing committee put on a splashy, TV-friendly, penny-squeezing Olympics that netted $220 million. Suddenly suitors were turning handsprings before the I.O.C., each performing citius, altius...
...hurry to get things accomplished," he cheerfully confesses. He is in constant motion--lecturing in Europe, raising money on Wall Street, opening satellite centers in California. The closest he comes to relaxing is sailing on his 82-ft. sloop, the Sorcerer. Even that's a challenge. "He seldom goes for a day sail," says his wife Claire Fraser, a noted molecular biologist. "When he goes sailing, he's got to cross oceans...
...have been abused and exploited. Their quality of life has been permanently changed, and it was done with their money! True justice would be served if Seaboard president Harry Bresky had to live in the home of Julia Howell, who has been forced to seal the windows and seldom ventures outdoors without a face mask because of the ever present stench from her "neighbors"--Seaboard's 40,000 hogs. PAT RITACCO Nutley...
...advised to choose from lists put out by the likes of the American Library Association or peruse review journals. But that means extra reading and legwork after long days; often teachers have little time to do more than quickly pick from "kits"--catalogs sent by publishers. Such kits seldom feature nuanced books, says Calfee, especially on subjects such as race or broken homes. "It's a bit more than Dick and Jane, but it's all happy-face stuff," he says. An editor in the children's book industry admits "there are many great books out there" that...
...seldom see almost the entire House in the dining hall," Delmont says. "It was almost completely filled...