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Patriots Day in Boston can be reduced to a single concept--the Marathon. For 24 hours yesterday. Beantown stretched 26 miles. 385 yards. No more, No less. And for the 6500-plus official entrants, and the countless unofficial runners. Lexington was the farthest halite from their minds. Surviving Heartbreak Hill and crossing the finish fine at the Pro was the only challenge...
There was 27-year-old Greg Meyer running the least six miles by himself, coming on so-close to a course record on route to his 2:08:54 championship run And there was native Bostonian Joan Benoit shattering the women's world marathon record with a time...
...Delors held 13 separate meetings with West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, some lasting hours, some just a few minutes. According to a West German insider, Delors's behavior was "beyond belief." He was said to have threatened, raged and thrown temper tantrums. Said Stoltenberg privately of the marathon negotiations: "It was an experience I would not want to repeat." But in the end, Delors's intransigence paid off. He improved on Mitterrand's "final" position by obtaining a 5.5% mark revaluation and a 2.5% devaluation of the franc...
Goldman is enough of an insider to command attention to, if not total agreement with, such statements. He is also generous with caustic soundstage glimpses of movies in the making. Here is Dustin Hoffman on the set of Goldman's Marathon Man, browbeating an ailing and clearly enfeebled Laurence Olivier into walking around and around a large room with him, improvising a scene. Recalling this long ordeal, Goldman notes "Hoffman's need to put himself on at least equal footing with this sick old man." Someone else the author will probably not work with in the future...
That bit of doggerel is the opening stanza of a poem written by Mani Said al Oteiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates, to commemorate the marathon twelve-day meeting in London of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries that ended last week. The minister's lament reflected the mood of desperation that led OPEC to slash its official bench-mark price from $34 per bbl. to $29, the first cut in the group's 23-year history...