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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thornton also took first in the two mile. Dartmouth's Tom Shiland took an early lead in that race followed closely by Harvard's Tom Spengler and Jeff Brokaw. By the last lap, the race for first narrowed to Spengler, Penn's Bob Childs and Thornton, who pulled up steadily throughout the race...
Pretty Good Idea. The chief worry is that if there is no progress, the rough equilibrium in nuclear weapons that now exists between the U.S. and the Soviet Union will eventually be upset. Already, both sides have started running the next lap in the arms race: the U.S. has begun deploying Hydraheaded, almost unstoppable MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle) missiles in the Minuteman 3 and Poseidon submarine programs, and the Soviets may be on the verge of fitting their giant S59 missiles with multiple warheads...
...plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls. Woodcutters prowled the thick jungle at will looking for hardwood cinnamon; hunters tracked boar and rabbit, and farmers tilled neat, geometric rice paddies in the rich lap of the foothills...
...asked him to put it out. He recognized her as Dr. Joyce Brothers, whose cool, blonde analyses unkink snarled psyches on TV and in the newspapers, and hastened to extinguish the cheroot. But the aroma apparently lingered on and Psychologist Brothers came back. "I'll vomit in your lap if you don't put out that cigar," said Dr. Brothers. "You're asking me to put away my virility symbol," answered the traveler, determined to show that he knew a psychological thing or two. Later, as he was waiting to disembark after the plane had landed, there...
Andretti snaked around the 3.2-mile course at an average speed of 109 m.p.h., fought his way past tenacious Mark Donohue in a Formula A Lola-Chevrolet and then closed on the leader, Scotland's Jackie Stewart. Executing a neat passing maneuver on the 31st lap, he gunned by Stewart's blue Tyrrell-Ford and won going away. The second heat was more of the same as Andretti bested Stewart by a 12.3-sec. margin. After accepting his $39,400 winner's prize, Andretti suggested that the U.S. Formula A team could take some consolation from...