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...style with disdain. Instead of pacing himself and saving a kick for the last quarter-mile, Bayi sprinted from the gun. His opponents, recalls Hurdler Tom Hill, "used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun's seven-year-old 1,500-meter world record with a time of 3:32.2-equivalent...
...after Smith's announcement, Cambridge Mayor, Walter J. Sullivan, corralled four other councilors, and couched in the rhetoric of getting more Cambridge people involved in the task force, the mayor drafted a resolution to remove the agency from the city manager's office and dump it in his own lap. Although Sullivan didn't get his way, he did gain the right to stock the task force with twelve people, possibly people aligned with his view favoring the museum. And when Sullivan goes to Smith this weekend to offer his last ditch stand to keep the archives and the museum...
...Crimson thinclads opened a long lead on the second lap of the mile relay and held on to win and defeat Northeastern, 63-55, Saturday at Briggs Cage...
More than half a billion miles from earth this week, a small (570 Ibs.), unmanned spacecraft is completing the first lap of an incredible journey. As it hurtles past Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 m.p.h., some 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, Pioneer 11 is slated to use its cameras and instruments to reconnoiter the solar system's largest planet. That will be only part of its task. As it passes 26,000 miles above Jupiter's turbulent cloudtops, the spacecraft will be pulled by the planet's gravitational field into a corkscrew-shaped...
...park our car down the exit road. On our way out I hear a man exclaiming: "I think just seeing what's going on here is fun." By the time the race starts it is 3:30 and we are again standing at turn 6. The race is 59 laps long. On the 10th lap there is a spinout down the straightaway. The next day I will learn the driver, Helmuth Koinigg, died crashing under the guardrail. He was decapitated. Standing next to us is a man with a radio who tells us the lap numbers. After the first...