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...next Monday looms like Heartbreak Hill. It figures to be the final Patriots Day for the Boston Marathon, and the last stand of undiluted amateurism. For reasons no less prosaic than television, the Boston Athletic Association intends to shift its noble race next year to Sunday, perhaps adjust the starting and finish lines slightly for commercial purposes, and, if all that isn't jarring enough, begin paying the winners. Will Cloney, 70, president of the B. A. A. and master of the marathon, contends that there is at least "a semantic difference between being paid and running for prizes...
...seasons is that you have to contend with the elements," says senior co-Captain Kim Johnson. On top of the elements, there is also the larger track, longer sprints and hurdles, additional distance events, and the different passing zones for batons in the relays that the competitors have to adjust...
...Holy Week began in Jerusalem, Israelis were locked in a series of struggles on a number of fronts. They were striving to maintain a tight hold on the occupied Arab territories and trying to adjust at the same time to the trauma of withdrawing at long last from the Sinai, the great desert barrier that separates them from Egypt...
...plate wearers themselves, they adjust painlessly. In fact, when a plate is lost or broken, the child usually refuses to feed until a new one can be inserted...
...adjust to some of the losses, Wentzell is sending several players to unfamiliar positions. Last year's second baseman Alissa Friedman is now the leftfielder: Co-Captain Marlene Schools moved from first base to fill the spot Bernstein vacated at short, and Landya Boyer, formerly a reserve shortstop, will start at first this afternoon...