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...Force jet. It was a dispiriting day for pageantry: raw, windy, drizzly. But as runners started the torch on its zigzag, 15,000-kilometer journey across 33 of the 50 American states, the dark skies seemed only to intensify the symbolic glow. The second runner, 91-year-old Abel Kiviat, silver medalist in the 1,500-meter race in the 1912 Olympics, had no inkling that anything was amiss as he ended his appointed kilometer; he lit the torch of twelve-year-old Timothy Towers, who had won the honor in a raffle, and urged, "Carry...
Finally, Harvard announced this week that Associate Professor of Economics Andrew B. Abel won the 1984 "Graduates Award for Good Teaching in Economics." The $5.000 award was established nine years ago by Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith to encourage good teaching for graduate students...
...committee of five several year graduate students selected Abel was unreachable for comment this week. The runners-up for the award were Associate Professor of Economics William Lazonick and Professor of Economics Andrew Mas-Colell...
...members in the fading domestic steel industry; following heart surgery; in Whitehall, Pa. After quitting school at 14, he went to work in a St. Louis foundry for 250 an hour, became an active unionist who rose through the ranks and survived a bitter insurgency fight to inherit I.W. Abel's mantle only to see the Steelworkers' membership plummet by half during his term from a 1979 high of 1.4 million...
...L.A.O.O.C. will have generated another billion in commerce and, while accepting no charity, will have promoted millions for youth organizations. If the most joyful ambition of the Games is realized, a 10,000-man-woman-and-child relay team of torchbearers will connect the country?from 1912 Olympian Abel Kiviat to retired Baseball Star Johnny Bench to the ordinary jogger in the street?and along the way $30 million could be the gain for youth...