Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Picture coverage was coordinated by Photo Researchers Jerry Astor and Paula Hornak, who supervised Photographers Rudi Frey, Neil Leifer, Jim Drake and John lacono. Says Astor: "Fog, heavy snow and bad light made it a photographer's nightmare...
...miles away. There a courier took the film on a chartered Learjet to London and by Concorde to New York City. One day the airport was closed, so Frey and TIME's Yugoslav driver, Jovan Vučkoviċ, set off on a hair-raising ride over winding, snow-covered mountain roads to Mostar, 84 miles away, where the Learjet waited. Says Frey: "The drive, in good weather, takes two hours. We made it in an hour and 55 minutes." So fell another Olympic record...
...certain that the presidential caucuses have worked out the way they hoped. Everybody knew that the caucuses were built into kind of a glitzy new service industry designed to bring in the city sharpies with all their money. In February, Iowa has a surplus of snow, gray skies and idle hours. Only money and pool halls are in demand. This year the fellows at Toad's said that none of them got a single dollar of the $10 million lured into the state. Most of the money went to television stations, hotels and car-rental agencies, an alarming number...
...leader who had stressed discipline and order. As the strains of Chopin's Funeral March sounded over and over again in mournful monotony, the procession set off from the House of Trade Unions toward Red Square along 600 yards of streets that had been brushed clean of ice and snow. A burial plot had been marked off for Andropov in the special cemetery along the Kremlin wall reserved for prominent Communist leaders. Appropriately, Andropov was buried alongside Felix Dzerzhinsky, the man who in 1917 had founded the security agency that grew into the KGB empire that Andropov ran before becoming...
...Eric Heiden's commentary enabled viewers to appreciate subtle differences in style among the competitors in the women's speed skating. ABC compressed Finnish Gold Medalist Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen's 10-km cross-country ski race into a montage of snow-hazed spurts of ardent labor that made her final collapse seem an inevitable part of the effort. Hockey Commentator Al Michaels could probably inject excitement into a pinochle game, although he shared in ABC's unrealistic buildup of the young, inexperienced U.S. team. As a taped image showed...