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With a total of eight medals, four gold, the most hopeful U.S. team had the smallest yield in twelve years. But if the numbers were dim, the moments were bright, and the attitude of the least eminent athletes from the quietest sports added to that. "Up in the air, I...
U.S. figure skaters usually invest all their hopes in one particular woman and, lately, no special man, but this time there are two eminent females, 1983 World Champion Rosalynn Sumners and 1982 World Champion Elaine Zayak, as well as the world's best male skater for the past three years...
Since Davis ran out on a full house in Oakland in 1982 and made it stick after two trials against the league, the city has been trying to condemn the team-everyone condemns this team-and take over under the laws of eminent domain. Meanwhile the Raiders are in Los...
This high-principled denial of reality inspired the lunatic crusade against masturbation, which various eminent doctors declared a cause of blindness, consumption, dyspepsia, vertigo, epilepsy, madness and early death. One doctor recommended warning the guilty: "In three months you will be a dead man." Others prescribed various girdles to be...
In March 1982, Evans resigned after serving just a year as editor of the Times of London, one of the world's most eminent newspapers. But he did not leave voluntarily. He was shoved out by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian press baron who had bought the Times and its...