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...difficult for the U.S. industry to recover from a deep slump that began during the recession. American steelmakers lost about $2 billion last year. U.S. Steel reported last week that it had a profit of $171 million in the first quarter, but most of that came from its Marathon Oil subsidiary; its steel operations earned only $4 million. National Steel also posted a slim operating profit in the first quarter: $5.6 million on sales of $551 million...
...Marathoners are used to racing against time, each other and themselves, but for the past year Alberto Salazar has been running against an opponent he had never encountered before: failure. In 1982 the Cuban-born Salazar stood alone as the world's best distance runner. He held the American record in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, and had the world's fastest time in the marathon, in which he was undefeated. An Olympic gold medal glistered on the horizon. Then last year, Salazar began to run down and out. His inner fire seemed to have...
That fire once drove him exuberantly. As a cocky University of Oregon senior in 1980, Salazar predicted that he would win the New York Marathon, the first he had ever entered. He did. The next year he predicted he would run the fastest marathon ever in New York. Again he kept up with his words. His obsession to win almost killed him: in the summer of 1978 he received last rites from a priest when his body temperature hit 108° during the 7.1-mile Falmouth Road Race in Massachusetts; after winning the 1982 Boston Marathon, he required...
...Committee "operates with a 19th century view of the place of women." Indeed, as late as 1952 there was an unsuccessful I.O.C. proposal to eliminate women's track and field completely. Although three women's track-and-field events have been added for Los Angeles, including a marathon, the total is 17, just over two-thirds of the men's slate. Said A.C.L.U. Attorney Susan McGreivy: "The lack of parity is just outrageous...
...them, is exhausted. "He doesn't sleep," jokes a Jackson aide. "He just faints a while." Hart, 47, Mondale, 56, and Jackson, 42, have been on the road for more than a year. Since January they have had to go at a ferocious pace, running an electoral marathon at sprinters' speeds. It shows. The survivors often look drawn and ashen, and all have made blunders because of fatigue. Indeed, the intensity of this year's primary rigors, physical and emotional, may be unprecedented. Says one drained journalist, a veteran who is trooping after Jackson: "There has never...