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...limit of non-destructive running. By that point, a runner has used up all his expendable energy. After that, proteins and muscles start tearing down. That's why Heartbreak Hill is so torturous. If it were during the first ten miles of the race, the insidiously gentle two-mile ascent up to Boston College would raise nary an eyebrow. But instead, it must be dealt with at the runner's true breaking point--when every cell in his body starts screaming surrender...
...meet progressed, the Crimson steel proved true as Dan Sullivan broke a three-way tie for first place in the high-jump by winning on fewer misses, and mountain-climber Geoff Stiles left his Princeton Sherpa guides behind with a 14-ft.,-6-in. ascent in the pole vault...
Galbraith's project attempts to do for the history of economics what Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man did for science and what Kenneth Clark's Civilisation did for art. Of the three, the professor emeritus from Harvard has the most difficult job. Economics is hard on the head and soft on visuals. Portraits of Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes are simply not as rousing as thermonuclear explosions or The Naked Maja. But the obscure theories that economists set adrift have far-reaching consequences. Said Keynes: "Practical men, who believe themselves...
...gallery of masterpieces ... will be produced in three dimensions on your wall. This will be done in such a way that the original and the facsimile could not be told apart." Plans for encyclopedic TV series modeled on Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man hung in the air. All of this would be distributed for various TV and educational outlets around the U.S. It might have been the largest coup of Hoving's career, but last week it turned out to be a huge Indian gift. Enraged by city officials...
Luckily for impoverished Grambling, Governor Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long approved the school's efforts in 1928 to become state supported, and the first funds arrived two years later. But not until 1944 was the first B.A. degree awarded, marking Grambling's ascent from a teacher and trade school to a four-year college. Meanwhile Jones pioneered a field service that toured the backwoods, teaching such basics as hygiene and how to fix a harness. "We were asked off of some plantations," recalls Jones, "because they thought we were running their labor away. And [sharecroppers] did leave with...