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...terms of the Southland (7-Eleven) Corp.'s $1.2 million gift, every medal-winning Olympian was allowed to invite one guest on the caravan, and their choices were telling. Jeff Blatnick, the nation's most renowned Greco-Roman wrestler, asked Andrew Saris, the last man cut from the squad. Mary Lou Retton, whose gymnastics career required her to leave home two years ago, reached back to Follansbee, W. Va., for her old friend Lori Lombardi. Cyclist Steve Hegg's neighbor Doug Huffman used to pace him tirelessly in Dana Point, Calif. They went together to the parade...
...Games. The unprecedented clutter of Olympic-oriented promotion could inspire public indifference and confusion. Or, in the worst case, some disaster or embarrassing incident might occur at the Games that would cast a shadow over the sponsors' brand names. Admits William Scott, chief Olympic planner for the Southland Corp., owner of the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores: "There are a lot of things scary about...
...some states between schools that are experimental and those that are illegitimate. It is hard to define a diploma mill. In California, for instance, anyone can set up an "authorized" degree program by providing a list of faculty members and courses and $50,000 in assets (a home qualifies). Southland University in Pasadena, for example, meets all the state requirements. Yet last year the former registrar told the FBI that one student received a B.A. in engineering after submitting a short résumé, and a real estate agent got a juris doctorate by taking a legal assistant...
...Ueberroth says. "IBM is going to do the computerization of the Games; AT&T is helping with communications." Since the L.A.O.O.C. had no need for hamburgers, McDonald's built the swimming pool, one of only two major new constructions. The other is the cycling velodrome, contributed by the Southland Corp., owners of the 7-Eleven stores. "We were told that only two facilities needed to be built, a swim stadium and a velodrome," says Southland Executive Bill Scott. "We wanted to build the swim stadium, but when we got back to the Olympic Committee we were too late. We thought...
...power." Buick will put out a limited line of 10,000 Centuries called the Olympia-and charge $406 extra. All the backers expect to benefit on the bottom line from the Games' luster and class. "We don't plan on having a discount Olympic Slurpee," says a Southland 7-Eleven official. "This man Ueberroth and his team," observes an executive at Converse, "are going to make money for the city of Los Angeles, for the Olympics, for just about everybody else, including the sponsors...