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Then, of course, there was the favorite: Aurele Vandendriessche, 31, a skinny, hook-nosed Belgian who once held the world record for 30,000 meters, and likes to train before dawn - running 30 miles or so through pine forests when "it's dark, and peaceful, and beautiful." Vandendriessche was the defending champion; in 1963 he did not even arrive in Boston until the night before the race, still breezed to an easy victory in a record 2 hrs. 28 min. 58 sec. This time he lounged confidently around his hotel room while competitors were inspecting the course and plotting...
Snare drums roll. Spotlights lattice the darkness and zero in on a trim brunette and a dangling hook. She thrusts the hook into a ring knotted in her hair, and while spectators watch in disbelief the rope tautens, and slowly she is lifted up and up through the elephant-scented air until she is dangling 73 ft. high. Then she calmly starts juggling three pastel Indian clubs, all the while hanging by her hair...
...Forfeit. Brewster is determined to preserve the combination. His inaugural address pledged the university to keep aware of the outside world, while preserving a haven for the detached pursuit of knowledge. Yale may hook up to educational TV, Brewster said. It might even train volunteers for the Peace Corps or give harried students a year off to ponder their future. More important, though, Yale will remain geared to its smallish, liberal arts college-unlike Harvard with its proliferation of special research units, or the "multiversity" of Clark Kerr's California. "Even the pressure to serve the state," Brewster said...
Hundreds of striking medics streamed across Belgium's borders for "extended vacations" in neighboring Luxembourg, France and Germany. Those who stayed home left their phones off the hook or linked them to tape recordings that informed callers where emergency service was available. Skeleton crews of doctors at central exchanges diagnosed ailments and prescribed treatment over the phone. Military hospitals also opened their wards to civilians, while corporation doctors, few of whom joined the strikers, doubled up in overcrowded hospitals and clinics...
...world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon is a jumping fool that often runs well over 100 Ibs., can snap a line almost at will or make a reel smoke with his furious runs. Experienced fishermen count themselves lucky to boat one out of every ten tarpon they hook into. In three short days at Colorado, contestants boated 102 fish...