Word: tannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles Knapp, chairman of California's huge Financial Corporation of America (assets: $32.7 billion), was sporting a new tan from a sailing vacation in the Caribbean last week, but what he had to say at a hastily called Los Angeles press conference contrasted sharply with his relaxed appearance. Under pressure from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Knapp explained, F.C.A. was adjusting its earnings report to show a second-quarter loss of $107.5 million instead of the $31.1 million profit announced earlier. The dispute with the SEC was a technical argument concerning the manner in which the company reported sales...
...running repartee beforehand, Hingsen said Thompson's braggadocio made him think of Muhammad AH; Thompson called his rival "Hollywood Hingsen" because of his Burt Reynolds mustache and his perpetual golden tan. Hingsen predicted he would win the gold. Thompson replied, "There are only two ways he is going to bring a gold medal home; he'll have to steal mine or win another event." Thompson has added an eleventh event to the decathlon: clowning around. He came to one press conference sporting a floppy hat, then doffed it, revealing his head swathed in bandages. "All this talk...
...diving in 1948 and '52, and who coached Louganis from '74 to '77, says, "I have been around diving for 50 years, and no one I have seen, past or present, or whom I see coming up in the future, will equal Greg's performance." Tan Liangde, the flashingly acrobatic 19-year-old Chinese who came in second to Louganis in the Olympic springboard competition last week, laughed aloud at the silliness of the question when someone asked him whether the American could be beaten. "No," he said, and then added, no doubt with some Asian...
Three days later, after Louganis had won his gold and Ron Merriott, 24, of the U.S. had followed Tan Liangde's silver with a bronze, springboard diving gave way to platform competition. The contrast is sharp and fascinating. The best parallel in sport may be to skiing. Springboard diving, like slalom racing, requires great agility and tuning as the diver catches the flex of the board and rides it for maximum spring. Platform diving is like downhill racing, a dangerous, gut-sucking plunge that seems insane to onlookers and sometimes to participants. The concrete platform, of course, does...
...bodyguard count alone is positively Olympian. At full strength, there will be 16,000 armed officers on patrol during the Games. Aiding them will be about 8,000 unarmed private security guards. Dressed in blue-and-tan uniforms, the private guards will monitor the Olympic Villages, event sites and hotel lobbies. They will also be on duty at the warehouses and shipping docks of the food caterers for the athletes, making sure that no tampering occurs and that delivery trucks are properly sealed...