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...boycotted company. The number of years that the women's volleyball team has stayed and played together were reflected down the stretch in a thrilling victory over China as well as a taut 12-15, 10-15, 15-5, 15-5, 15-12 comeback against Brazil, one of the singular excitements of the Games...
...gold in the 100-meter breaststroke. The Australians took a host of silvers and bronzes and seemed ready for better things. Finally, an unknown 17-year-old Aussie named Jon Sieben came out of deepest anonymity in Lane 6 to win the 200-meter butterfly over a singular West German named Michael Gross, beating Gross's world record by one-hundredth of a second...
When all is said and done in this singular campaign, that may be the most important consideration. The final confrontation could be classic: Walter Mondale, who knows and values the role of the state, vs. Ronald Reagan, who has built his power by a direct dialogue with the people and given much of his long professional life to fighting Government...
...Reagan has genius it was displayed in this posthumous presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Scoop. If Reagan does glide through to victory, it will be because of his singular instincts about how to play President. He melds great national principles with private ambitions; he blends what is real with what is ephemeral. Emotion becomes meaning. Politics becomes sacred policy. Adversaries become allies...
When 47-year-old Discus Thrower Al Oerter wrecked his calf three weeks ago and abandoned his quest for a fifth gold-medal Games, sentiment took a tough loss. But it rebounded marvelously in the person of Hammer Thrower Burke, 44, the singular delight of the trials. His motto: "We must not step off life's parade." A veteran of the 1968 Olympics, Burke retired for twelve years, patented a hydraulic weight-lifting machine and sold it for $2 million. Five years ago, his two teen-age daughters helped him scrub the rust from the old ball and chain...