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Indeed, examples of the excitement of our times unfolded all week long. Within minutes of the predawn news of Yuri Andropov's death, TIME'S editors were gathering to discuss the magazine's coverage and to deploy correspondents and photographers. In Moscow, Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, worried by the melancholy music on his morning radio but not yet knowing that a Soviet notable had died, prepared himself for a stressful day by a half-hour jog through the capital's slippery streets. His weekend turned into a marathon of interviews with Soviet and diplomatic sources about...
...team enjoy traveling to meets--the skiers have done well in the past and have attracted several champion skiers. Judy Rabinowitz, who raced for Harvard as a freshman five years ago but has since left the College, is in Sarajevo right now competing for the U.S. Olympic squad. Erik Klausen '81, who had several top 10 finishes in Division I when he asked for Harvard, now races...
...accidents like Jackson's are hardly unprecedented. Laurence Olivier, while shooting the movie Lady Hamilton in 1940, had his wig accidentally set afire by a torch; he escaped serious injury. But the toll seems to have burgeoned with the technology. Erik Estrada was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident on the set of TV's CHiPs in 1979. Another TV star, Peter Barton, suffered third-degree burns over 18% of his body in 1981 while filming his sci-fi series The Powers of Matthew Star. Dozens of stunt people and technicians have been involved in less publicized mishaps...
...group of 2,000 children braved icy winds in the broad concrete plaza outside the conference hall to hold up placards spelling out a message for the visiting foreign dignitaries: THE WORLD IS WAITING. -By John Kohan. Reported by Erik Am fitheatrof/Stockholm and Barrett Seaman with Shultz
...their weight. Furnished $500,000 by the U.S.O.C., the speed skaters did not expect a corporate sponsor, and they have none. One thing about speed skaters, though, when they tumble and go sliding into the wall, they always dust off their bottoms and finish the course. Mary Docter and Erik Hendriksen are America's best, but a medal for either will be cause to rejoice...