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Raper was a resident of Lexington, and is survived by his wife, Carlene Allen; their children, Jonathan and Linda and a son, William, from a previous marriage; and four brothers and a sister...
Also covering those last few yards was Mike Burns, a red-headed sophomore from Martinsville, Va., who finished in 2:41:06 and placed 177th. Burns and three other runners staying at Harvard, who attend Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., lasted the grueling 26 miles. Tom Washington, a late arrival in Cambridge, placed 185th and was only 4.6 seconds behind Burns. Bill Kalal ran a 2:53:54, his best ever, and copped the 416th spot...
Brittin is one of four students from Washington and Lee University, a small all-male school in Lexington, Va., that have come north to Harvard to run in the hilly, tortuous, world-famous marathon today...
...many drivers, says John Bell, owner of a Mobil station in Lexington, Mass., "have tried every trick in the book to beat the system, from 'My wife is about to give birth' to 'My daughter is sick.' It's incredible the sob stories you hear." In Wilkes-Barre, Pa. a woman argued for five minutes at pumpside that eight was not an even but an odd number. In San Diego, bribery reared...
...railroad tracks. "These people are like animals foraging for food," says Don Jacobson, who runs an Amoco station in Miami. "If you can't sell them gas, they'll threaten to beat you up, wreck your station, run over you with a car." Laments Bob Graves, a Lexington, Mass., Texaco dealer: "They've broken my pump handles and smashed the glass on the pumps, and tried to start fights when we close. We're all so busy at the pumps that somebody walked in and stole my adding machine and the leukemia-fund...