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...relay sponsors are as varied as America: scores of corporations, U.S. Marines, a schoolteacher in Wichita, Kans., and dozens of celebrities from Jane Fonda to O.J. Simpson. The runners will be, if anything, even more varied. Leading off the relay from the U.N. will be the grandchildren of the great Olympians Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens. But in Ventura, Calif., Hell's Angel George Christie will carry the flame, decked out in a regulation Olympic running outfit embellished with touches like a silver skull earring and lurid tattoos. The L.A.O.O.C. cashed his $3,000 sponsorship check, unaware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Olympic Ideal Gets Burned | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...noteworthy smaller papers are as feisty and controversial as the Georgia Gazette, but they all seemingly share that philosophy and apply it in all sorts of settings. The Akron Beacon Journal (circ. 163,300), Kansas' Wichita Eagle-Beacon (circ. 120,900), Oregon's Eugene Register-Guard (circ. 65,200) and North Carolina's Fayetteville Times and Observer (combined circ. 66,900) serve sizable communities away from big cities. They are matched in quality by suburban competitors of papers on TIME's ten best list: the Quincy Patriot Ledger (circ. 89,300) south of Boston, the Bergen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Big Fish in Small Ponds | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...Nebraska (17-11); New Mexico (24-10); Notre Dame (17-11); Ohio State (15-13); Old Dominion (20-10); Oregon (16-12); Pittsburgh (16-12); St. Joseph's, Pa. (20-8); St. Peter's, N.J. (23-5); Southwestern Louisiana (20-8); Tennessee (19-13); Weber State (22-8); Wichita State (18-11); and Xavier of Ohio...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Harvard Not Among NIT Selections | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Tulsa 86, Wichita...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

John Carmody Wichita, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 16, 1984 | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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