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McCurdy added that Crimson sophomore Peter Johnson ran his "best race this far," Johnson finished fifteenth...
Harvard's freshman superstar Darlene Beckford added yet another first-place finish to her string of victories that seems unlikely to be threatened in regular season competition. In last Saturday's duel against Brown, Beckford reaffirmed her place among the nation's best runners by shattering the Franklin Park 5000 meter course record...
Yesterday, she steadily pulled away from Dartmouth's Toni Cook to win by 20 seconds at 17:54 after challenging Cook in the middle of the race. Kristen Linsley captured third for the Crimson in a personal best of 18:41. The rest of the race featured a thin green line of Dartmouth's runners which was broken only by captain Karla Amble who finished in seventh place...
Everywhere else in his stories, Voinovich judiciously stirs a bit of pathos in with the farce. "What I Might Have Been" is both the earliest and the best in this collection. A construction foreman tells why he resisted his superiors' demand that he declare a block of apartments finished before it's ready. The narrator is no warrior of dissent; his only reason for stepping out of line is that he "doesn't like sloppy work." Voinovich characterizes his hero and the people around him with spare strokes of wry description and an occasional slip of the knife...
Baltimore's win overshadowed a fine relief effort by the Pittsburgh staff, called by manager Chuck Tanner "the best bullpen in baseball." Relievers Rooker, Romo, Robinson, and Jackson held the Orioles to 3 hits and no runs over the final 7 2/3 innings, allowing the Pirates to make their late...