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...like to run, it makes me feel horrible" Marc Chapus, the co-captain of both the men's indoor and outdoor track team, says. "I punish my body to make it perform, and it lets me know it. I practice hard and push my body to the brink, after a meet in which I run in two or more single events I'm exhausted and run a 103 degree fever the next day, plus I ache all over...
...midst of feverish diplomatic efforts to head off a further escalation, he discussed the crisis with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman in his wood-paneled office and conveyed the impression that he was seeking a face-saving way for both countries to step back from the brink...
...called the jam-packed conference "one of the most encouraging signs [of public awareness] in many, many years"--said he and other speakers were trying to suggest "some very concrete steps we can take toward turning back from the' nuclear brink...
Bridges. One of every five bridges in the U.S. needs major rehabilitation. Fortunately, those on the brink of breakdown are usually closed to traffic. In Ohio, 605 bridges have been blocked off, but 4,000 others that show ominous signs of deterioration are still in use. More than half of Louisiana's 14,800 bridges do not meet federal and state standards. Some of the nation's worst bridges are also heavily traveled ones. In River Rouge, Mich., the Miller Road Bridge links a huge Ford Motor factory with Interstate 94. A city engineer describes it as "utterly...
...many times must we stand on the brink of the precipice? What assurances do we have that one day we shall not fall into the abyss?" Even as he posed that grave question before Warsaw's parliament last week, Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski once again implored his fellow Poles to end the labor turmoil that has crippled the country for eight months and brought it perilously close to a Soviet invasion. This time the four-star general put teeth into his appeal by demanding a legislated, two-month ban against all strikes. Otherwise, Jaruzelski warned, he would be obliged...