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Refusing vinegar-soaked sponges offered by spectators, saintly Bennett Beach '71 sprinted his way into the hearts of Boston's townspeople yesterday with a sub-three hour performance in the annual Boston Marathon. Competing for the KISKO KIWIS. Beach finished 32 minutes behind winner Olavi Suomalainen of Finland and well ahead of author Erich Segal '58. "He's a brave lad. Ben is," said race coordinator Jock Semple. "We've been needin' more of his kind, instead of all those fatsos from C.C. with the weird hats...
...tough on us, though, because most of the spectators' remarks I overheard were about the women, and when the top one finished she got a louder round of applause than the winner and louder even than old Johnny Kelly, who at 6-4 must represent some kind of Marathon minority...
...wasn't ringing in my ears and I wasn't thinking about sex. I had to occupy my mind other ways. Usually I just sang teenage death songs. Laura's boyfriend Tommy drove to the stock car race and killed himself about 22 times during the course of the Marathon, and if that train didn't kill Teen Angel the first time, I imagine it had by the nineteenth...
Throughout the jury's marathon deliberation, the defense was never idle, firing off one motion for a mistrial after another. Obviously perplexed by the legal complexities of the charges, the jurors on two occasions asked Federal Judge R. Dixon Herman to please re-explain exactly what comprises a conspiracy. His explanation, the defense objected, was "contradictory, irrelevant to the issues, grossly confusing and repetitious." In one note breaking down the subdivisions under count 1, the all-important conspiracy charge, the jury asked: "Do we find some of the defendants guilty if we have evidence that they have conspired...
...Boston Athletic Association broke a 76 year tradition Wednesday when it announced that women would be allowed to run in the 1972 Boston Marathon on Patriot...