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Completing the race in 3:54, Weston said he started off at an "incredibly stupid pace of six-and-a-half-minute miles" that caused him to cramp up around the 15-mile mark. "The first 15 miles I was thinking it's odd how I'm passing people, then the next ten miles I was thinking it was odd how people were passing me." Although Weston admitted that he didn't think he would finish at Heartbreak Hill, the Government major said he realized he "had to finish. The two last things I wanted to do in Boston were...
...thinclads entered the competiton without middle-distance men Ryan Lamppa and Bob Higgens. both sidelined with injuries. The depleted forces were further thinned when Marc Chapus, Harvard's fastest quarter-miler, pulled up during his event with a muscle cramp, leaving David Frim as the lone trackster to qualify for this afternoon's finals...
Meanwhile, Johnson, who was running 20th at three miles, developed a stitch in his side that slowed him way down. "I dropped 25 places after I got that cramp," he said. "People started passing me right and left...
...period of stagnant federal and state aid. One proposed device: juggle whatever cash is on hand adroitly enough to earn maximum interest on it. The mayors respond like pre-med students before final exams, asking the same basic questions and getting writer's cramp taking notes. When Crozier misplaces his pad he scribbles away on a series of napkins which he then stuffs in his pocket...
Some McGraw-Hill employees fear that a takeover would cramp their editorial independence, though it is hard to see how Amexco would be different from any management, including the present one. In any case, those fears have an ironic ring. In a mostly laudatory cover story on Robinson and American Express ("a cash machine"), Business Week advised in its Dec. 19, 1977, issue that Amexco's "best response" to new competition would be "to look for additional products for its affluent market, or to find other businesses that fit [its] specialized mold." Little did the staff guess that their...