A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 17, 1983

This week's cover story looks at the enormous effort by a group of Southern California businessmen to organize the financing, the facilities and the logistics of the third summer Olympic Games to be held in the U.S. Written by Associate Editor Tom Callahan, the story was largely reported by Correspondent Steven Holmes, who spent three weeks talking with those who have the responsibility of making Los Angeles a comfortable locale for 10,000 athletes and hundreds of thousands of spectators next summer—and of ensuring that Los Angeles does not go broke in the process....

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