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...jumped into a swimming pool fully clothed. But he seldom indulges in nights of horseplay. His reverie is of the perfect day: "To be at our summer place in Sweden, to go out with the boat, to be on the sea. You are by yourself. No one is talking. There is just the wind...
Until recently, after charges of using cocaine were dropped, he seldom left his apartment after work. If he did go out, he always took a few friends to be witnesses in case someone confronted him and started a scene. He heartily dislikes the pretenses of politics, and has made no close friends in Washington. He likes to be with women but ends up spending a lot of time alone...
...morning, he has only a bowl of cereal for breakfast. He stopped eating red meat five years ago, convinced that it is unhealthy, and sticks to fish and chicken. He hasn't been to a movie in five months, watches only news and old movies on television, seldom reads for pleasure. He spends enormous amounts of time on the telephone...
...factory manager. Vladimir Yashchenko, 21, a world-class high jumper busily training for the Olympics, receives a stipend of $400 from the government. Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 28, the 1980 winter Olympic champion figure-skating pair, live in a two-bedroom apartment in downtown Moscow, a privilege seldom granted to a couple so young. Once their playing days are over, many Olympic athletes can look forward to careers as coaches and sport administrators...
...wake of the Miami riots, Joseph Boyce, TIME's Atlanta bureau chief and a black who was once a Chicago police officer, reported on the status of blacks in his city and elsewhere in the South. Said Boyce: "Blacks are like artifacts in a room seldom used. They are dusted off periodically for a look, especially after a riot, then replaced in the cabinet. The doors close again until the next time...