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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...
...Crimson runners moved out well behind front-runners Beckford and Cook over the uphill first mile. As the teams spread out in the critical middle mile, Linsley, Amble and her teammates Leslie Voit and Diane Jacobson held third through sixth places ahead of a string of five Dartmouth women...
...transferred to Camp Pendleton, Calif., as executive officer of an ordnance and maintenance company, she worked hard until the day before she gave birth. Her labor lasted just three hours. Said she: "I credit that to the great physical conditioning of the Marine Corps." Another military mother, Captain Diane Cook, 30, of Dover Air Force Base, Del, worked twelve-hour shifts until a week before her daughter was born. "I had morning sickness," she said, "but I arranged to have it at night...
Though most women quit work earlier than Jacobson and Cook, indications are that not much time is being lost because of pregnancy. A 1977 Defense Department study showed that Army women lose an average of three working hours per month because of pregnancy. A Navy study done the same year found that women lose less time than men, partly because of the male penchant for alcohol, drugs and general roistering. Females miss an average of 4.22 days a year, compared with 7.03 for males...
...whistle a phrase, to show that he is at least thinking about music. Even while cavorting in the pool, Pavarotti whistles. Finally they get to the keyboard for some detailed drilling on the score. But soon a pungent aroma drifts in from the kitchen where Anna, the cook, is at work. "The day is a crescendo reaching its climax at lunch," says Di Nunzio. "Lunch is very important. Luciano will be singing a phrase, and abruptly he gets up, still singing, and walks away. Luciano and the phrase disappear into the kitchen." If Di Nunzio paces restlessly past the kitchen...