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...first man to run in the marathon, Pheidippides, paid for it with his life. The marathon is that type of race--none of the quick glamour of the sprints, nor the intense excitement of the pole vault or the high jump--instead only 26 miles and 385 yards to cover in a finite amount of time, and it means, inevitably, pain...
JACQUES CHABAN-DELMAS, 59, is a former general in the French Resistance whose easy charm and dashing self-confidence have injected a Kennedyesque touch of glamour into Gaullist politics. Mayor of Bordeaux since 1947, Chaban - the Resistance code name that he formally adopted after the war - is also a former Premier. The perfect Gaullist? Not quite. For one thing, Chaban advocates widespread reform ("the new society," he calls it), ranging from governmental decentralization to increased social security benefits - policies that are anathema to some Gaullist fundamentalists who want to hold down government spending. Moreover, his reputation is still clouded...
...glamour entries were not the only ones in trouble. Beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the "roaring forties" justified their ill repute. Italy's Tauranga lost a crewman to the angry sea, and Dominique Guillet, captain of the French yawl 33 Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself...
...Died. Arline Judge, 61, Hollywood glamour girl of the 1930s and '40s (One in a Million, Lookin' for Trouble), who had almost as many marriages as movies to her credit; of an apparent stroke; in West Hollywood. Among Judge's seven husbands were Film Director Wesley Ruggles, Tin Millionaire Dan Topping, and later his brother...
...time college sports crowding the calendar, what is Florida's biggest spectator sport? Answer: Dog racing. The turnstiles spin merrily year-round at one or more of the state's 17 tracks (there are only 23 others in the rest of the U.S.). Despite the dearth of glamour and the shortage of champions that stand out from the pack, huge numbers of gamblers want to wager on the greyhounds that futilely chase an ersatz rabbit around an oval of either five-sixteenths or three-eighths of a mile...