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Decker's Olympic epitaph is the saddest one, that she never had the chance to succeed or fail. Without challenge, almost invisibly, formidable Rumanian Maricica Puica finished the ill-starred race with her yellow hair flying. It was the Games' inaugural 3,000-meter run for women, another piece to the creeping acknowledgment of their athletic competence. Puica looked eminently competent, and not being able to see her hooked up with Decker in the stretch was a sore loss. In 1972 Decker was just starting out as little Mary, 14, not yet contrary, who ran so extremely hard...
...historical treasures and opposed the spread of urban development. In 1972, Queen Elizabeth named Betjeman poet laureate, a title once held by Tennyson and Wordsworth, but ill health curtailed his productivity over the past decade. One of his last collections, A Nip in the Air, concluded with a poignant epitaph: "Now if the harvest is over/ And the world cold/ Give me the bonus of laughter/ As I lose hold...
CANADIAN Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's recently announced resignation is not a misfortune, but a blessing whose disguise will be short-lived. By week's end, the word will be out and he'll be stripped of all but his epitaph: he wore nice suits...
...governments have very different views," Reagan said in his weekly radio broadcast Saturday. "our sons and daughters have never fought each other. We must make sure they never do." Reagan now has the opportunity, and therefore the responsibility, to make sure that his words become more than an ironic epitaph...
Strikes have punctuated life in Arizona's copper-mining towns for over a century. An epitaph on an old tombstone in Morenci reads, KILLED BY A SCAB. But this strike is different, redolent of the new bargaining climate in the U.S. that has put some unions on the defensive. In the past, when even the coalition of 13 unions at Phelps Dodge, led by the United Steelworkers of America, routinely went out on strike at the expiration of a three-year contract, the company would close down operations until a new deal had been negotiated. This year, racked...