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...impossible. Even Adams' fervent admirers admit that he can be spotty: at best an artful cataloguer of flora and fauna, at worst a windy sentimentalist. Memorable passages occur only when his imagination roosts among furry creatures or in the mid-regions of myth. Give him anything more difficult to chew on than a bone, and things fall apart. The story of Rowf and Snitter is glutted with just such indigestibles...
...harrier Rodney Garland dueled successfully with freshman John Murphy for the lead, rewriting another facility record, while in the two mile event John and Bob Flora grabbed the top two slots for Northeastern...
Northeastern's Flora twins sewed up the team win with a one-two finish in the two-mile, followed by Ed Sheehan of Harvard at third. The relay events split down the middle as the Harvard mile relay team of Frim, Lamppa, Nicodemus and McAndrews edged their Huskie counterparts by less than two seconds while Northeastern was the undisputed victor in the two-mile relay event...
...Mark Lech, the All-American runner who placed fourth in a middle-distance event in last year's Nationals. Lech can run well in any middle distance event and usually has--especially in the half-mile and the 600 yard run. Then there's the distance team of Flora-Bickford-Flora, which has been busy quashing Crimson hopes for a first place victory in the GBCs for the past few cross-country seasons...
Bruce Bickford is one of the best milers in New England, and has been known to run this event in 4:01. John Flora, the better half of the Flora brother act, is a two-mile specialist, but like Bickford, can easily run well in middle distance events...