Word: marathonic
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...marathon shuttle began the week amid hopes of a breakthrough. Argentina had removed its fleet from the blockade zone, and long sessions with Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri and Foreign Minister Costa Mendez had convinced the Secretary of State that the Argentine government was ready to show some flexibility. Haig departed Buenos Aires on Easter Sunday with what he called "some specific fresh ideas." The next day, after an 18-hour flight, he landed in London, where he met with Thatcher, Foreign Secretary Francis Pym and Defense Secretary John Nott. Optimism over the "fresh ideas" quickly vanished, however...
Professor Daniel Branton told members of his Bio 7A class last Monday that they didn't have to go to the Boston Marathon to see great athletes--the National Diving Champion, Dan Watson, was in that very class...
...began playing golf on a converted cow pasture renamed Rolling Acres near his New London. Ohio, hometown, thinks the demands on a Harvard golfer make it less than idyllic. Carrying your own clubs, which can weigh 30 pounds or more, for 18 to 36 holes is a "mini-marathon," for anyone he says. The team doesn't ride around in golf carts sipping martinis between tees. They also play in adverse conditions. "At home," Baker remarks, "you wouldn't think of going out on the golf course when it's 40 degrees and raining," but at Harvard, they...
...biggest sports event of this week was not even Harvard-related, but an awful lot of Crimsonites did participate in it. That event was, of course, the 36th running of the Boston Marathon, which was won by ALBERTO SALAZAR and CHARLOTTE TESKE, who overcame the heat and the treacherously hilly course to emerge victorious--Salazar with a new Boston record of 2:09... All told, about fifty Harvard undergraduates, graduates and faculty members run in the Marathon, and although the Crimson ran a list of finishers and their times on Monday, a lot of others were omitted because they...
While Salazar's friends and supporters at home rejoiced after his Monday victory. Eugene also celebrated the feats of two more of its prominent figures. Both John Lodwick, who took third in the marathon, and Shirley Kay Durtschi, the fourth woman across the finish line, are residents of the city...