The Best TIME Covers

On TIME's 85th anniversary, check out the most lasting images ever to appear inside the red border and vote for the best cover in TIME history.

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Man of the Year
Peter Ueberroth: The Achievement was Olympian
January 7, 1985

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The flame came fluttering out of the darkness, into an early morning light. Americans in bathrobes would sometimes stand by the sides of the two-lane roads, and as a runner carried the Olympic torch toward them, they would signal thumbs up and break the country silence with a soft, startling cheer. Their faces would glow with a complex light — a patriotism both palpable and chastened, a kind of reawakened warmth, something fetched from a long way back...Read the full story

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