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There were other equally egregious judgments. In the women's 3-meter diving competition, the East German judge on a panel of seven generously gave the D.D.R. entrants the top three scores. Other judges saw matters differently, and the East German girls finished third, ninth and tenth in the...
But the new Olympic stadium makes the expense seem worthwhile. It is a convenient, comfortable oval that accommodates 80,000 (including 33,000 standees) within "human dimensions"; promoters boast that the maximum distance between spectator and competitor is only 212 yards. A javelin throw away is the swimming stadium, which...
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. He invented prototypes of the submarine, the diving mask and snorkel, the airplane, the parachute, the tank and the hydraulic screw. What he did not invent, as the opening segment of CBS's five-part Life of Leonardo da Vinci amply illustrated...
"The flea survives by hopping and hiding," advises the I.R.A.'s favorite tactician of guerrilla warfare, Robert Taber. On Strand Road in the Catholic Bogside area of Londonderry last Monday evening, the fleas were hopping again. I first heard the detonations coming from the dockside down by the River...
The author, a sometime novelist and freelancer, is unusually sensitive about both the Senator's political and personal history. He is also a rather flamboyantly bad writer, a reporter who demands equal time for his metaphors and his research. He uses unprecedented candor in dealing with his vulnerable subject...