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...that she's at a new speed plateau. She is able to run faster than ever, but her hamstrings can't take the strain." Kaminoff treated the Injury with an Electro-Acuscope, a mysterious contraption related to Eastern acupuncture used by Sports Sociologist Jack Scott in reviving Joan Benoit before her victory in the marathon trial. Encased in tights, Ashford had to pull up in her 200 qualifying heat after 70 meters. An alternative favorite, Chandra Cheeseborough, also dropped out (to rest a pulled hamstring), leaving first in the final to Valerie Briscoe-Hooks. Cheeseborough earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Dress Rehearsal for Lewis et al. | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...Joan Bennett Kennedy at Manhattanviile College in Purchase, N.Y.: "The most important thing I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade. And there is time, time to shape a balance between family and friends, work and career. Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words of Hope and Warning | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

Cliff Robertson does the pitching in television ads for A T & T, while Comic Joan Rivers weighs in for MCI. Companies are offering lures aplenty. A T & T and MCI first gave away an hour of free long-distance time for signing up; Sprint quickly matched them. Before the campaign is over, each consumer in Alameda will be reached four times by mail or phone by Sprint promoting its discounts. There are promises of fee cuts and refunds if users are not satisfied. A T & T plays up services that its rivals cannot match. Examples: collect and person-to-person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long-Distance Runners | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...Class of '59's recollections traffic freely from one unlikely coordinate to the next; from Joan Baez to Fidel Castro, from Santa Claus to bubble baths to fierce religious controversy. "You could do whatever you wanted," recalls the playwright David Rintels...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: 25th Reunion Group Recalls Harvard Variety | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

Within this time frame, the Class of '59 welcomed the opportunity to be "opened up like a sardine can," as Spooner says to listen to Joan Baez, who sang regularly at Tullah's a coffee house on Mt. Auburn Street...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: 25th Reunion Group Recalls Harvard Variety | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

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