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...pointed Americanism is seeping into the cultural stream too. Right after the Los Angeles Games, ABC broadcast the premier episode of Call to Glory, a new series, set in the early 1960s, about Air Force fighter pilots. Says a network insider: "The campaign to promote
...September, a steady stream of the completed applications trickles into Geraghty's Pound Hall office. In a matter of months, the office is inundated with paperwork. Under a system of rolling admissions, most candidates are notified of the committee's decision within four weeks, making Harvard the fastest law school, Geraghty says. "We tell you right away," she explains. The first denials are mailed before Thanksgiving--just in time to ruin the holiday...
Nothing keynoted the swimming competition or the week itself more sharply than the women's 100-meter freestyle race, the first finals in the rapid white-water stream of them. When a Swiss timepiece was unable to choose between Carrie Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead, duplicate gold medals were struck, and naturally those two were immediately dubbed the Gold Dust Twins. From their wide expressions on the unusually crowded victory stand, neither swimmer minded the company or gave much thought to absent East Germans. Regarding the boycott generally, the athletes know where the asterisks go, and will cheerfully tell anyone else...
...Americans traded the lead with Norway's Dag Otto Lauritzen and Morten Saether, Colombia's Nestor Mora and Canada's powerhouse, Steve Bauer. With ten miles left, Grewal pumped off on a premature breakaway. He gained 24 sec., but Bauer was soon riding in his slips stream. In the last 200 meters, the fatigued American downgeared slightly and blasted up the final grade, rising on his pedals and throwing up his arms as he crossed the line, barely a cycle length ahead of Bauer. Of the temperamental Grewal, Eddie B. shrugged: "Sometimes he's good, sometimes...
...military or revive growth; their approach often borders on extreme arrogance. The military reformers talk with some merit, about the necessity for liberals to take defense matters more seriously and they exhort the Army to improve cohesion and morale, never bad advice. But they they ignore the long stream of institutional interests in the subject that has been stymied simply by the normal difficulty of getting something changed in the armed forces, not necessarily because of the stupidity writers often impute to the officer corps. In much the same way, economic reformers talk glibly about fostering more cooperation between business...