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...Slam magazine advertised its latest "Cure for frigidity"--a woman photographed flat on her back, her legs spread-eagled, with a jack-hammer pointed at her crotch...
Bright spots in the meet came from Harvard's field squad, where the season's two most consistent winners, Gus Udo and Tom Lenz, each won their events. Lenz left his competition far behind with a winning toss of 209 ft. 10 in. in the hammer throw, a solid 10 feet farther than his nearest competitor...
...question is which of the two party candidates Anderson will hurt the most. The standard assumption has been that Anderson would injure Carter more grievously than Reagan by providing a rallying point for the disgruntled liberals who are now backing Ted Kennedy. In the campaign, Carter Democrats will hammer endlessly on the theme that "a vote for Anderson is a vote for Reagan...
Lenz also sees some negative aspects about the sport. "You have to put up with being isolated to be a hammer thrower," he complains, referring to the event's being held outside the stadium during meets. "In the NCAAs, where he finished 7th overall and 3rd for Americans in 1979, "we had only 200 spectators, compared to the 15,000 watching the running...
Lenz contrasts he United States' neglect of the hammer throw with its popularity in Europe and Russia, where the hammer is a "glamorous event, "Lenz says. "In Russia everybody wants to be a hammer thrower," he adds. "Imagine if all our Mean Joe Greens decided to throw hammers instead of footballs...