Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give each entrant a physical exam before the race never bother to check his head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost a decade. Last week was no exception: the winner was Japan...
...runs at Penn Saturday in the light hurdles, Lynch will have to better his 14.3 time at Princeton in order to place. Boston University's Dave Hemery, Lynch's exceptional rival in both hurdles, will not run because of a tender leg...
Boston Guard K. C. Jones was wearing so much adhesive tape that he looked like a fourth dynasty mummy. Forward Sam Jones was suffering from water on the knee. Center Bill Russell's right leg was so bandaged up that it looked as if he was wearing long Johns under his shorts. Forward Willie Naulls was suffering from a bad attack of the bads; he could not find the basket, which caused Coach Red Auerbach to start John Havlicek in his place. Of such accidents are great coaches made...
...Anderson, 23, a native of Baton Rouge, La., was the world's No. 1 ranked sprinter in 1965; he has clocked 9.3 sec. for the 100-yd. dash. New Orleans' Theron Lewis, 21, is the U.S.'s fastest quarter miler-at 45.8 sec.-runs the anchor leg on Southern's one-mile relay team, which tied the world record (3 min. 4.5 sec.) at last year's California Relays. Robert Johnson, of Princeton, La., is 21 and only a sophomore...
...laughs come. Lithgow himself plays the Lord Chancellor; on his first entrance he is greeted with claps of recognition which he then goes out of his way to deserve. His leg movements alone are worth the price of admission, which--incidentally--seems awfully high, regardless of the return...