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Competing in an outside lane, Hackett went out in a fast 47.7 and held on to finish third with a 1:37.1--a time that is within three tenths of a second of his lifetime best. He also led off the Gators' 800 free relay--a team composed of Harvard swimmers Ted Chappell, Larry Countryman and Jack Gauthier--that finished a surprising sixth in the final standings...
...most important factors in the men's J.V. race was a blustery wind which blew them off course, and midway through forced them to jackknife the boat across the course to regain their lane...
President Reagan, however, has reaffirmed support for Manhattan's Westway, a six-lane superhighway slated to run for 4.6 miles along the Hudson River. The highway, with an estimated price tag of $1.7 billion, would receive 90% of its funding from the Federal Government. New York City Mayor Edward Koch has blocked the project in an effort to get parallel funds from Albany for mass transit improvements or to get Governor Hugh Carey to ask Washington to trade in highway funds for transit money...
...Lane Kirkland, the delightful panjandrum of labor, rides through the Washington nights in a chauffeured Chrysler limousine, often as not in a dinner jacket, almost always with his cigarette holder at a jaunty angle. He is the field marshal for the downtrodden, having assembled 185 organizations into a budget coalition to contend with Ronald Reagan, who does not smoke but who happens to wear a dinner jacket just as often and rides in a chauffeured Cadillac limousine...
...port of Jidda and the inland capital of Riyadh, each with a population of more than 1 million today have become two of the fastest growing cities in the Middle East. Skyscrapers sprout from the desert landscape. Building cranes bristle across the horizon. Multi-lane highways and ringroads girdle the cities. Old neighborhoods change dramatically in a matter of weeks; new ones spring up overnight. The din of traffic and construction, residents complain, makes it virtually impossible to sleep after...