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...slippers. They would have gone to a staring contest if it had been a medal event. Live theater performances, including Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the Opera House, came to a halt while a big screen showed a particularly anticipated race. The denigrating humor was merely a contrasting shade in a riot of eagerness and team spirit...
...increasingly red (and egg-spattered) face of the IOC just blushed one shade deeper. After finally achieving some distance from charges of corruption and pocket-lining, the beleaguered International Olympics Committee is on the block again. It seems that after examining the results of a two-year federally funded study surveying doping at the Games, the White House office of drug policy has written a scathing rebuke of the IOC, blaming the committee's haphazard screening methods for the rising incidence of athletic drug abuse. The 107-page reprimand was released Friday...
...much harder than the ascent, but you don't know that yet. The novice hiker is leg weary as you near the cottonwood trees of the first oasis, 3,000 ft. below the rim. It's much hotter here than at the trailhead, and you flop down in the shade and briefly commune with Kit Carson and Charles Lindbergh and Sir Edmund Hillary and wonder, "Can I make it back up?" The answer is yes. Absolutely...
...Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues 2. White Wedding -Billy Idol 3. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes 4. Smooth - Santana 5. Broken Wings - Mister Mister 6. Here Comes the Sun - Beatles 7. Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan 8. Long Cool Woman - Hollies 9. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson 10. Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum...
...black.One of them pulled out a rifle and shot Palafox in the neck. The youth wrapped his shirt around the wound and crawled back to Mexico in 115[degree]F heat. "I thought I was going to die in the desert. There wasn't a single tree for shade," says Palafox. Once across the Mexican border, Palafox dragged himself another mile before reaching a farmhouse, where he got help. The two riders have yet to be found...