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...tarmac at Manila International Airport, where Aquino was assassinated last August. They were protesting a referendum called by President Ferdinand Marcos for Jan. 27 to ratify a constitutional amendment on the presidential succession. Along the way, military police intercepted and harassed the joggers, drawing wide attention to the marathon. The protesters were forced to camp outside the Philippines capital for three days. By the time they resumed the run, the referendum was over, but the publicity given their detention prompted an emotional out pouring of support. A throng of 25,000 people turned out for an antigovernment rally. Aquino halted...
Moss Hart testified that the prayer of ev ery aspiring playwright was, "Please God, let Jed Harris do my play." Nevertheless, with playwrights from Ben Hecht to Thornton Wilder, he imposed marathon revisions and usually ended by demanding a co-author credit and half the royalties. When he directed Arthur Miller's The Crucible in 1953, he responded to an out-of-town audience's calls for the author by going onstage and taking...
...year, Columnist David Broder of the Washington Post, reviewing some of his own errors and misjudgments, concluded, "But no one, I hope, will deny me my one moment of brilliance." As long ago as January 1983, "I wrote, 'Mondale has the capacity to make the Democratic marathon dull.' Boy, did he ever!" Broder is a fair-minded reporter, but how can one man in a field of eight be blamed if a marathon is dull...
While at Harvard, Jackson will play a "hacker's game of tennis, and think about running in the Boston Marathon." He also plans to commute to his home in New York each weekend to visit his wife, Michelle Holmes '77, also a 1982 graduate of the Medical School...
...graceful, gray-haired man with an easygoing smile, Brown is as unpretentious as a telephone repairman, perhaps because he has fixed a few phones in his time. "Hi, I'm Charlie Brown," he introduces himself. Throughout all the congressional hearings, bargaining sessions with the Government and marathon staff meetings surrounding the divestiture, he has kept a self-effacing sense of humor. On one arduous day, an employee accidentally trod on Brown's foot in an elevator at AT&T's Manhattan headquarters. "Oh, that's O.K.," Brown said. "Everybody's stepping on me nowadays...