Word: 78th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bearded 22-year-old in the green mesh T-shirt wearing number 16 became the 78th winner of the Boston Marathon yesterday. The Irish-born Cusack ran away from the pack to finish the 26-mile, 385-yard course in 2:13:39, the second fastest victory ever for the B.A.A. event...
...Mike Burns. Burns, from Martinsville, Va., placed 213th in last year's Boston Marathon and the stocky runner has a best-ever time of 2:43:10. He, Brittin, Bill Kalal and Ferris Mack will be part of the crowd of 1951 participants, the most ever, in today's 78th Boston Marathon...
...Phyllis, choked in rhinestones and shod in gold boots and waders, has been chosen as Field and Stream's first centerfold to celebrate the magazine's 78th anniversary. Her measurements? "Approximately those of a striped bass...
Stunned, the regime dispatched extra police to the Basque provinces, where tensions were already at the flash point. In protest, 150,000 workers walked off their jobs. Schools shut down, stores closed, and young Basques battled with police in dozens of towns. In Madrid, Franco interrupted his 78th birthday celebration to call an emergency session of his Cabinet and declare a state of emergency in Guipuzcoa, the "most Basque" of Spain's four Basque provinces...
...convicted her of parricide in the bloody 1892 ax murders. "Fortunately there are some of us alive who will never accept her guilt," says Bill Rabe of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., spokesman for the 1,000-member Friends of Lizzie Borden. Each of Lizzie's friends commemorates the 78th anniversary of her parents' deaths in his own way. Rabe walks to the outskirts of Sault Sainte Marie carrying an ax, buries it in an unsuspecting oak tree, strolls back into town and gets drunk...