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Perhaps the most amazing thing about Hackett's feat was that he didn't even seem to be swimming his hardest. Hackett cruised easily through the first five laps of the eight-lap race, his long, smooth strokes keeping him even with Navy's Dan Gildae. On the sixth lap, Hackett exploded--turning on the gas seemingly at will-and left everyone else far back in his wake. He went on to win the race by half a lap...
...pictures of generals and presidents on the walls. Each of his last 5 sons is named after a different 5-star general who also serves as a godfather. In one of the photographs Eisenhower sits bemusedly with one of the grandfather's fat baby sons ir his lap...
Scott Dolson blew by B.U.'s Ed Arnold on the gun lap of the 1000-yd. run to win one of the night's most exciting races...
...trio of Ed Sheehan, Reed Eichner, and Mark Meyer raced to Harvard's most lopsided running triumph of the evening, as they went out fast and managed to hold on in the two-mile. Meyer was passed by a B.U. runner on the last lap, but Meyer sprinted back by him to record a personal best time, ignite the fans, and send the Terriers home with their tails between their legs...
Nothing like it has been seen in the U.S. in at least 129 years-or ever. In driving rain, while a band belted out The Yellow Rose of Texas, a bronze torch made its final lap in front of Houston's Albert Thomas Convention Center late last week in the strong hands of Tennis Star Billie Jean King. She was greeted by some 2,000 determined women chanting "ERA! ERA!"-for the Equal Rights Amendment. Puffed New York City's hefty Bella Abzug, who trotted the last stretch with Billie Jean: "We are here running for equality...