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...EARC Sprints end the season for the lightweights, but the heavies will continue to train for June's Sexton Cup, a head to-head, four-mile marathon with Yale in New London. Named for the manager of Harvard's 1883 crew, the Sexton Cup is the oldest college athletic event still held annually...
...auto slump has devastated the steel industry, which relies heavily on shipments to Detroit. National Steel lost $40 million last quarter, and Republic dropped $67 million. At U.S. Steel profits were down 71%, to $80 million. The firm would have had almost no profit without the earnings of Marathon Oil, which U S Steel acquired in January. Company Chairman David Roderick said last week that steel shipments had reached their lowest level in 40 years...
These and hundreds of other improbable events, along with scores of more predictable demonstrations in places like Palo Alto, Calif., and Boston, were part of the largest collective outpouring to date of ordinary Americans' worries about the prospect of nuclear conflict. Ground Zero Week, a seven-day marathon of films and sober teach-ins, performances and lectures, was designed to illuminate issues of nuclear strategy and, more pointedly, the ultimate horror of nu clear war. It was conceived and led by Roger Molander, 41, until last year an expert on strategic arms limitation for the National Security Council...
Alberto Salazar's victory in the Boston Marathon last week came in the record-breaking time of 2:08:51. It was an extraordinary performance, but it was no more remarkable than the finish of Guy Gertsch. The Salt Lake City bus-station ticket agent finished No. 985 in the entirely ordinary time of 2:47. But he did it on a broken leg. Gertsch, 38, felt what he thought was a cramp starting after seven miles. But he was determined to finish, and so he pounded on for 19 more miles before collapsing at the finish line. Doctors...
Crimson pitcher Ellen Jakovic took her cue from the Bruin mound ace, and in the second game of the marathon weekend, hurled her first career shutout for a 10-0 win over Cornell...