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...perhaps the biggest hurdle students face will be running the gauntlet of 64 student organizations eager to recruit athletes, politicos, and interested activists...
...years ago, the commissioner of fencing for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, Jan Romary, decided to throw down the gauntlet, as it were, and go for the audience gold. Romary, a six-time member of the U.S. Olympic fencing team who in 1968 became the first woman to carry the U.S. flag at the opening ceremonies, traveled to world championships in Vienna and Rome, taking thousands of photographs, determined that in this Olympics, fencing would get "the elegance it deserves. It is the sport of kings. I want to see the blades move in the light against the black...
...principal negotiations throughout 1983 were not between the U.S. and the Soviet Union but be tween the White House and Congress. The beleaguered MX pro gram was about to run a gauntlet of votes on the Hill, and an increasingly assertive group of Congressmen made it clear that they would continue to support funding only if the Administration adjusted its START proposal to take account of their ideas about what constituted sound arms control...
...plant gates last Tuesday morning carrying low-sulfur coal from the Orgreave coking works, near Sheffield, to a steel mill at Scunthorpe, 40 miles away. With that, Britain's angry, three-month-old miners' strike flared into open war. As the vehicles ran the gauntlet between Orgreave and Scunthorpe, 7,000 picketing miners pelted them with rocks, smoke bombs, ball bearings and nail-studded potatoes. Two thousand policemen charged repeatedly into the crowd on foot and on horseback. By the end of the day, 81 strikers had been arrested and at least 110 people hurt, among them...
Over the years some critics have charged that Author John Updike consistently slights his fictional females, making them interesting only insofar as they arouse or comfort men. Updike's eleventh novel does not seem designed to appease his accusers; indeed, it looks a lot like a gauntlet flung down at feminism. Readers should get ready for a particularly hot summer. Some of the squawking at beaches will be coming not from seagulls but from liberated ladies and gents who are reading The Witches of Eastwick...