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...jocks in Hawaii fell to arguing about which was the tougher sport, biking, running or swimming. Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run. That was in 1978. This year, with the distances in many cases shortened to a so-called tinman's grasp, 1.2 million Americans are expected to take part in 2,100 triathlons. The event is being called the fastest-growing participatory sport in the nation. There is talk of getting...
...marathon 20-hour Cabinet meeting early last week, Peres forced through a package of austerity measures designed to shock the economy back to health. The program included an 18.8% devaluation of the shekel (which beforehand was worth 1,262 to the U.S. dollar) and a three-month general wage and price freeze, along with price increases of 17% to 82% on such subsidized products as gasoline, bread and milk. At the same time, the Cabinet cut away the methods that Israelis use to protect themselves from inflation, by suspending the wage-indexing system that ties earnings to the cost...
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...marathon sessions last month the committee heard preliminary testimony from Harvard administrators and other witnesses to determine the general chain of events. When it next convenes in September the CRR will attempt to resolve some of the smaller discrepancies between the various accounts, said CRR chairman Richard E. Kronauer...
...real reason, according to other assessments, was that Asuncion was growing increasingly uncomfortable with the unpleasant publicity generated by the Mengele association. (Not coincidentally, perhaps, the doctor had by then been the inspiration for two novels, Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil and William Goldman's The Marathon Man, that had been turned into popular movies...