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...opening ceremonies. "Really spectacular," he says with remembered pleasure. But he consciously avoided the excitement of most other events. One evening Lewis moseyed over to the Santa Monica apartment of his manager, Joe Douglas, to watch the swimming on television. When Bruce Hayes, an unheralded freestyler from UCLA, held off the final surge of West Germany's Michael Gross to give the U.S. the gold in the men's 4 X 200 freestyle relay, Lewis "got very excited, probably more excited than I will for the 100 meters. I was turning somersaults. I was jumping and screaming...
Calling to mind Jackson Pollock canvases, speckled draperies decorating the high fences at 23 venues actually look more like painters' dropcloths. But they do relieve the mood of the barbed wire (see DESIGN), and even the main villages at U.S.C. and UCLA are unforbidding. Strangely, no rifles and very few sidearms are in view. The only visible security forces, Ueberroth's Royal Blue Berets, are khaki-clad women and men as affable as park rangers. (Rest assured, there are hidden police gunmen.) Less than the customary Olympic access is being accorded the media. Once processed into the U.S.C...
...kind: the separate signals received by the 27 instruments can be melded into a single seamless picture, providing scientists with huge, highly detailed portraits of the heavens. Pointing the VLA toward the galactic center, Yusef-Zadeh and his Columbia colleague, Don Chance, along with Astronomer Mark Morris of UCLA, mapped out 200 light-years of the galaxy...
...idea for a consistent graphic and environmental design came only as an afterthought. Early in 1982, as Architect Jerde, 44, worked on converting the UCLA dormitories into temporary housing for Olympic athletes, he realized that even temporary changes would be highly visible evidence of the Olympic presence. The organizing committee agreed to coordinate this visibility and turned the job over to Jerde's firm, The Jerde Partnership, which specializes in creating an urban ambience for shopping centers and commercial districts. Jerde in turn recruited Designer Sussman, 53, a former art director in the office of Charles and Ray Eames...
...UCLA, Wilson will receive a joint appointment in the Political Science Department and the Graduate School of Management...