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...slick video for the project's rather schmaltzy anthem, Hands Across America, with soaring shots of rugged landscape and cameos of dozens of stars, was released last week. Groups ranging from the New York Road Runners Club (which organizes that city's marathon) to Boy Scout troops have signed up to help with the logistics. Kits have been sent to more than 8,000 schools. Some 340 paid staffers are already in towns along the way and are working with 40,000 volunteers who have signed up to be marshals...
...longer was it for laurels only. Last week, for the first time in the 90-year history of the Boston Marathon, cash as well as glory was waiting 26 miles and 385 yds. from the starting line. The winner of the $30,000 purse and new Mercedes was Australian Rob De Castella, who finished fifth in the 1984 Olympics and had not won a race since 1983. Reading split times scribbled on the back of his hand to pace himself during his first attack on the prestigious course, De Castella, 29, led the crowd of 4,750 runners...
...Wall Street analysts considered the diversified company, formerly known as U.S. Steel, to be drastically undervalued: its stock price in no way reflects its $21 billion in assets, which include $13.2 billion worth of oil and gas holdings. Many of those energy ventures, like the $6 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil in 1982, were engineered by strong-willed Chairman Roderick precisely to raise the ante for would-be raiders. With the steel and energy businesses reeling, Roderick last August decided to pick a fight with the United Steelworkers over pay-and-benefit concessions. The resulting 16-plant walkout, involving some...
...flight attendants, reasoning that they made the skies, well, friendlier. In 1970 a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 1,720 women who had been forced to quit United when they married. Last week U.S. District Judge James Moran approved a $37 million settlement in the marathon case...
...marathon began in Moscow in September 1984, when the athletic, aggressive Kasparov, then 21, challenged the meticulous end-gamesman Karpov, then 33, world champion for the nine previous years and cynosure of the Soviet chess establishment. The match was played under revised rules, scoring only for victories, not draws. Five months and a record 48 games later, with Karpov leading 5-3 but faltering, the head of the World Chess Federation called off the contest, claiming that both antagonists were exhausted. Kasparov, having won the previous two games and the momentum, charged that he had been robbed. Seven months later...