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...races were run on a one-third macadam, two-thirds grass course which encircles the Franklin Park golf course. Several times during the meet McCurdy would hurry across the green to strategic points, where he advised his charges of their position, urging some on, and advising others to hold their places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Cross-Country Team Defeats UMass, 21-45, with Depth, Strategy | 10/1/1955 | See Source »

Teacher in a Hurry. Half an hour before the race, runners, trying to warm up in the rain, began to jog toward the starting line on the hill where the wet macadam of Highway 135 reaches toward Boston. The starter's gun barked at the stroke of noon. "Look at those guys," said a newsman astonished by the first scrambling sprint for position. "They've got million-dollar legs and five-cent heads." But by the time the field reached the first check point in Framingham, the tangle had unwound. The nickel noggins had dropped back; a Staten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motley Marathon | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

Seventy-seven marathoners scrambled over macadam hills and cobble-stone dales Saturday afternoon in the Brighton Board of trade road race, the first of three shake-down competitions before the Patriot's Day Boston Marathon on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crissman Places 40th In Brighton Marathon | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Tiny El Salvador takes the traveler through rich coffee land on paved roads, and he crosses Honduras' corridor to the Pacific on good gravel. Nicaragua's part of the highway, looping here and there to touch at the various ranches of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, is mostly macadam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Panama by '59? | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

From the steaming jungles of southern Mexico, over mountains and past frowning volcanoes, across the sunbaked plains of the north to the banks of the Rio Grande, stretches the longest, most punishing car-racing course in the world. On these twisting, plunging 1,912 miles of macadam and concrete, the fourth Pan-American road race began last week. One of the greatest international meets ever held, it had 177 starters from ten countries and was actually four races in one-big and small sports cars, big and small stock cars. At stake was a total $101,271 in prize money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Roaring Road | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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