Word: yugoslavic
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...TIME'S 20-member Olympics team in Sarajevo, getting the story was not life threatening, but difficult enough. This time the villain was nature. Snow, tons and tons of it, fell endlessly on the Yugoslav city, paralyzing communications, clogging roads, closing the airport, blurring the color in action-filled photographs and causing the postponement of event after event. Neither Eastern Europe Chief John Moody, who covered bobsledding, nor Associate Editor Tom Callahan, who wrote the week's main story, encountered major problems. Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers and Reporter Gertraud Lessing, however, braved treacherous slopes and icy winds...
...luge racer." Tucker was born in San Juan, where his father distributed motion pictures for RKO. He lived there five of his 36 years, but spent the larger part around Albany, N.Y., irregularly pursuing a doctorate in physics among other degrees of understanding. Introduced as "George Turkey" by the Yugoslav public address announcer, Tucker muses, "He knows more English than he lets on," and takes off on another practice slide down a jagged icicle that meanders like a teardrop through the piny woods on Trebevic Mountain. With the Sarajevo Games opening this week, rehearsal time is precious even...
...athletes are hoping they don't have 'blanket detectors.' " Souvenir hunters are eyeing the covers. Bedding in Sarajevo is more brilliant than housing. But the homes are warm and the people are sweet. A woman in work clothes surprised by visitors while hanging her laundry (Yugoslav dry cleaning, it flutters everywhere) appears the next moment in a beautiful red dress to offer coffee and slivovitz. Boots are left on the stoop, and slippers wait inside the door. Her brother-in-law, a more or less symmetrical giant named Momo, pours the plum marvelous drink while a child...
...congested is the Olympic program, six ice hockey games will precede the Feb. 8 opening ceremonies, unusual scheduling but appropriate to an organizing committee furious to stay ahead of itself. Thanks to Yugoslav heart and volunteer labor, the matter is being accomplished. While much remains to be done, everything is essentially ready. For the past two years, thousands of workers have been blasting, digging and building heartily. The merriest have been 5,000 teenagers, sweating ten hours a day just a few weeks ago, leveling the ski-jump ramp, laying carpet in the athletes' quarters, working literally...
...conditioning, ice cubes and even a cup of coffee, Yugoslavia still has a long way to go. One measure of the country's need for hard currency is an almost philanthropic scheme by which U.S. servicemen stationed in Europe are invited to vacation at any of six Yugoslav army resorts; they have first-class accommodations, swimming pools, saunas and good restaurants...