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...back door's runway 22 was equipped with only a radio localizer enabling pilots to line up their planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint three miles away in The Bronx, lined himself up with the strip, acknowledged landing clearance with his flight number: "320." The message was his last...
...four-truck convoy and its five grim soldiers rolled into West Germany, past the checkpoint on the border between East and West Germany...
...winner was John Welsh of Harvard, who drove an MG A and was a scant one second off the average speed at the checkpoint...
Their object was to follow a '57 A. C. Bristol Aceca, which left ten minutes earlier and dropped lime markers along a twisting, sixty-mile route that ended at the Concord battlefield. In addition, a hidden checkpoint clocked their speed, which had to be exactly 26 miles per hour...
...clear and cool as 164 runners set out on the road to Boston, a welcome tailwind at their backs. By the time they reached the first checkpoint in Framingham, four men chugged together in the van: Kelley, Costes and the two Finns. By Auburndale, 10 miles from the finish, the race was already narrowed down to easy-striding Kelley the younger and the chop-gaited Viskari, with Kelley slightly ahead...