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...fastest-growing program in Washington is not Medicare. It is not agriculture. It is not defense. It is interest on the debt. That interest this year is $110 billion. It is headed for $200 billion by the end of the decade. That is net interest. The total is more than double President Kennedy's budget in 1962 for the whole country...
...faster time. Mennea was in the race, incidentally, as he has been in four straight Olympic 200 finals since 1972. Imagine, a sprinter achieving such a thing, age 32. "Carl Lewis will never do it," the Italian said after finishing seventh, not meaning any unkindness. "He will run the fastest 200 some day, but he will never be back for four Olympics...
...such a momentous event, history's fastest all-woman marathon began in a quaint setting at the compact track of Santa Monica City College, where the mood was suitable for a high school pep rally, and so few tickets were sold at just $4 a head that the gates eventually were thrown open to all. Being a 5-ft. 3-in. feather in the wind, Benoit found that just 50 jostling women caused a terrific congestion. She hurried into the clear under a delightful painter's hat with the bill brushed back. About three miles out, Benoit...
...world's fastest fragile female runner is now also the only sub-11-sec. woman in the history of the Games. "I have the world record, and I'm the Olympic champion," she announced to herself. On the victory stand she held the gold medal out with her thumb to look at it. "I don't know what, but something came over me and I couldn't stop crying." She thought, "My God, it's over. I've done it. I can rest in peace." But no: "I'll continue to compete...
...Without being able to put a number on it and without being the fastest racehorse in the world, we have captured a substantial position of what's been going on in the past two weeks," Cabot said...