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...heavyweight race was a two-team event from the start, with Pennsylvania falling behind early after the staggered start on the only dog-legged course the team rows on all season. Harvard, in the middle lane, jumped at the start and made up Navy's initial outer-lane lead of four to five seats after the first 20 strokes...
Crossing the finish line in just under four hours, we fell over onto the lane-dividing ropes, doing our best imitation of the original Greek marathoner at the Athenian finish line. But unlike that ancient hero, we had no message to deliver to the crowd, just a small one to ourselves--"we finished...
...their trains into the city would be half an hour behind schedule. Fearing that the delays could be much longer, thousands of travelers took to their cars. But just as rush hour reached its bumper-to-bumper peak, a 4-sq.-ft. section of cement roadbed in the southbound lane of Manhattan's elevated West Side highway suddenly collapsed and tumbled to the ground below. While a repair crew patched the hole with a metal plate traffic backed up for three hours. Said one fatigued driver who reached his office at noon: "It's like Berlin after...
...leading ladies obey the immutable laws of the genre. As Author Patty Matthews has it: "You get your heroine up a tree and then throw stones at her. In the end she gets the man, the money and the happiness." In Rhapsody (Pocket; $2.75), a typical contemporary, Lane is afraid to tell the desirable pianist, Michael, that she is a talent agent. When he discovers her occupation, Michael mistakenly believes that she loves him only for his signature on a contract...
...hotheaded (but lovable) musician goes off with a woman over 30-always evil-and Lane rebounds with Reggie, the opera singer, and Tom, "the sweetest guy in the world." After the requisite skirmishes and reconciliations, Michael is persuaded to play a concerto for two hearts, and the wedded Lane happily manages his life. Throughout her trials, she cooks not one meal and never worries about pregnancy or inflation. Romance heroines are too busy tracking and trapping their hot-eyed executives...