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Almost everyone, it seemed, had a pet theory of how and why the unthinkable could happen. The U.S. men's and women's basketball teams, so the reasoning went, might look invincible. But they were pickup squads, assembled in March and still learning one another's moves, matched against seasoned teams, in some cases professionals. They would play on the slightly different international court, under different rules; the men would face unfamiliar zone defenses that would force them to shoot from outside rather than dazzle with dunkmanship. Indeed, before the Games opened, former Marquette Coach Al McGuire...
...Boston, rammed head-on into another Amtrak train, the Shoreliner, en route from Boston to New York City, on a trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck at a grade crossing in South Carolina three days later, killing one person, the number of fatal Amtrak accidents in the past month reached five...
CONVENTION. The U.S. House of Representatives is a male domain. Deals are cut between pickup basketball games in the House gym, and legislative strategy is still crafted over cigars and bourbon in musty cloakrooms. Only 22 of the 435 House members are female, and they are regarded warily by the Capitol's male denizens. Women in Congress must not whine, they must not pout and they most certainly must never cry. They must overcome all the stereotypes that many Congressmen, like some other males, have not yet shed about the opposite and allegedly weaker...
...business confidence, at least for the next 18 months. Beyond that period, though, the outlook is clouded by the unpredictable course of the surging U.S. economy, because high interest rates plus towering budget and trade deficits make the American expansion appear unsustainable. So instead of relaxing and enjoying the pickup, Europeans are now fearful about a new U.S. downturn and its impact on both themselves and the Third World debtor nations, whose inability or unwillingness to repay loans could bring on an international financial crisis...
That was the assessment of TIME's European Board of Economists, which held its twice-yearly meeting last week in the Italian resort town of Cernobbio, outside Milan. Said Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and Executive Vice President of Credit Suisse: "Europe's substantial pickup seems to believe recent theories about the inevitable stagnation of the old Continent in contrast with the youthful vigor of the U.S. and Japan. We still seem to possess talents for aggressiveness and innovation in world markets...